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Re: External preamp for Marantz PMD 661?

Subject: Re: External preamp for Marantz PMD 661?
From: "Raimund" animalsounds
Date: Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:47 am ((PDT))
> I record birds with a Marantz PMD 661, Telinga parabola with Sennheiser
> ME62 mic, and a Sennheiser ME66. Despite having a great setup, there are
> still times when I can't get enough gain to get a good recording of birds
> making soft vocalizations. I'm wondering if an external preamp, such as a
> Sound Devices MP-1, would increase the clean gain in these situations, or
> whether my current setup is already as good as it's going to get.

Bruce,

An external preamp would surely not impeove anything in your specific setup=
.

The noise floor of the Marantz PMD 661 preamps is already well below the in=
herent noise of the Sennheiser K6/ME6x microphones (see http://www.avisoft.=
com/recordertests.htm).

Regards,
Raimund










"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.



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