Re: hello everyone - new member and the usual new questions

["H=E5kan Olsson" nordicsounds]

Hi!
I have a DR-680 and I'm happy with it. I think the monitoring is easy on it=
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I would not buy a mixer. I would put that money on a better mic. Why?
Because in nature recording the levels is never ever high enough... I have
never used Low gain on the recorder. It's always on high and a high setting
and that's still not high enough... you will probably need to increase gain
in post most of the time. There are very few occasions like a thunderstorm
that will make you touch the level knobs on the recorder. Set it and forget
it... :)
The preamps on 680 is better (have lower noise) than most (all?) mics in
your price range, so a mixer isn't needed for that either. I know that it's
nice with real knobs to twist, but if you never need to twist them they are
just in the way and the mixer is an extra thing to carry around and also
have batteries for.
So my suggestion is, buy the best (low noise) mics you can afford, but
that's just my opinion. :)


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