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Re: Olympus LS-14 initial thoughts

Subject: Re: Olympus LS-14 initial thoughts
From: "Raimund" animalsounds
Date: Sat Jan 5, 2013 3:54 am ((PST))
> What is needed seems to be an external quality stereo mic preamp
> feeding into the recorder line input...
...
> I'm spoilt as I have a (secondhand) SQN pro mixer which is a joy to
> use with fully balanced matched inputs, mic powering and inaudible
> noise even with an input attenuator in.

David,

I have never understood why folks are using fancy preamps even in compinati=
on with good recorders such as the SoundDevices 7xx series. There must be s=
ome kind of a placebo effect that makes them believing there was a differen=
ce or maybe I'm missing something....

Raimund







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