I use the D50, I think it's great. The onboard mics are perfectly serviceable.
I sometimes plug a spaced pair of the Shire WL183's into the D50, a nice
portable ambience rig. I haven't tried all the different types of handheld
recorders, but the D50 has to be in the upper tier of them, I have never felt
it sounded noisy.
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> 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.
>
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> On 05 Jan 2013, at 22:26, ambient_jungle wrote:
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> > 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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