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Re: Anyone use the Sony PCM D50?

Subject: Re: Anyone use the Sony PCM D50?
From: "peter" quies_still
Date: Sun Jan 6, 2013 10:41 am ((PST))
I'm very happy with my d50. 
Used the internal mics at first. They sound pretty good for internal mics. 
Don't forget to buy the wind cover though, yon't be able to use it outside much 
without it.
In more quiet environments, the internal are too noisy, as you'd expect. So I 
switched almost immediately to binaural mics.
And when the opportunity arose, I invested in a pre-amp/mixer that connects 
digitally to the d50.
Now I can use all my microphones and it's still very portable. And I have 
quality comparable to the bigger recorders (Sound devices, etc) thanks to the 
Mixy preamp.

(As an aside: I was ready to buy a Sound Devices recorder but when my local pro 
audio shop heard I already owned the d50, they suggested buying the Mixy 
instead. I'd have the same, if not better (their words) sound quality, and less 
noisy to boot! The fact that the Mixy costs almost twice as much as the SD 702 
might have influenced them saying that though....)

I haven't done any testing with other smaller recorders, but nevertheless I'd 
say it's the best recorder you can buy for under 500.


On 05 Jan 2013, at 22:26, ambient_jungle wrote:

> So I am looking at maybe buying a Sony PCM D50. I know it's an older model, 
> but from different reviews I have read, I hear it is still one of the 
> cleanest sounding recorders on the market with in the $400 to $500 price 
> range.
> 
> I primarily like to record natural ambient sounds, whether that is in a city 
> or far away from people, like in mountains and or forests. At this stage of 
> my "hobby" I prefer to use an all in one system. Less gear to carry. I would 
> consider getting an Olympus LS-100 and have the XLRs there when the time 
> comes that I want to use external MICs, but I believe that is still someways 
> down the road, and I've read the D50 records better with less low noise than 
> the LS-100. Since many times, my recordings are very low noise of the world 
> around me, it is my hope to eliminate as much system noise as I can, from the 
> device itself.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone else has used the D50 with the internal mics and 
> what your experience have been with that? If you have used it with external 
> mics, how did you have it set up and how was your recordings?
> 
> 










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