I agree with Peter. You already have pretty good gear so I would try to work
with that and eliminate other noises so that you can crank up the input.
Ps - Unfortunately, low cost and low noise pretty much cancel each other out.
Cheers,
Eric
On 13/04/2013, at 4:45 PM, jonny6pack <> wrote:
> Good morning from London, England. Just a few words to introduce myself...
>
> From the moment I opened up an old transistor radio I've had a deep interest
> in audio. My first recordings were made on a compact cassette recorder in the
> late 1970s; I still have those early recordings (archived as WAVs) and have
> removed the noise using a mix of Goldwave and Adobe Audition.
>
> In the early 90s I trained as a broadcast engineer; sound was my speciality,
> but this was more technical side related to broadcast techniques (AM, FM, FM
> Stereo, NICAM)
>
> Over the past two decades I have recorded on MiniDisc, a Zoom H2, and now a
> Sony PCM-M10 together with a Rode NT3 and Rode Video Mic. I love these
> microphones; they produce clear, low noise sound, that I find pleasant to
> listen to. The Sony PCM-M10 is a recent purchase and I have been dumbstruck
> at the quality of its recordings. I thought the Zoom H2 was superb, but the
> Sony is so much more defined and has much lower self noise.
>
> Now to my question. I need to record the sounds made by rabbits. They do make
> extremely quiet vocalisations; so quiet that they are almost inaudible unless
> you know what to listen for. It's difficult to describe the sound, but
> 'grunt' comes close - very short bursts of principally low frequency sounds.
> they also squeak and 'quack' but these are not the sounds I want to capture.
>
> The problem is that I need very small, sensitive, low noise microphones to
> capture the sound. As the sounds will be captured in a domestic environment
> (inside a house) the only sounds I'll need to reject are of electrical
> appliances operating in adjacent rooms, and cars passing by. There will no
> wind or other weather to worry about. The NT2 and Video Mic are capable of
> capturing the sounds I'm after, but they are too large and attract the
> attention of rabbits. And rabbits like to gnaw things, especially new,
> expensive items! I have already lost two foam windshields and numerous cables
> to rabbits, and can't afford to lose entire microphones.
>
> So, could anybody suggest either low cost, low noise, sensitive, unobtrusive
> microphones or components to construct such a microphone? I can't supply
> phantom power, so batteries or plug-in power is preferred.
>
> Thanking you all in advance of any suggestions.
>
> JM
>
>
"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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