Landscape recording ?

infloria · Post by **infloria** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:16 pm

Would love to go in the forest next to my house to catch some weird noises.

I had one of those first sony minidisc with a cheap mic that goes with it but it just died on me... and the sound was just muffy with no definition at all.

I'd like to replace it with something more up to date, with a crispy sound.
I think DAT are out of the game in the now, and as i can see loots of litle digital option are poping alround.

do you have any advice on wich (portable) recorder to use, and a good mic for this kind of task ?

Tanks.

Infloria

mo's taverne · Post by **mo's taverne** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:36 pm

Mmmhhh.... I would go for OKM Soundman as Mic. for great Stereo
field recordings---->http://www.soundman.de/ I've heard
amazing recordings from them.

For the digital recorder i would go for a 24Bit/96Khz model.
Maybe the M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 (though i can't recommend M-Audio Stuff).
Otherwise it depends on what money you want to spend.
The Fostex Stuff is really great, but expensive.

infloria · Post by **infloria** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:52 pm

i try to avoid M-audio... (no comment

)
Those new korg 1 bit looks nice, but as i have no experiences in this kind of product it's hard to tell.

I will read the forum @ soundman for more infos, seems that theiy are a good choice.

thx

fredrik_h · Post by **fredrik_h** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:31 pm

great, I've been thinking of starting a similar thread here lately...

I'm also in the same thoughts here, have been using my crappy minidisc and cheap condensor mic.

the fucking noise floor is killing me from the lousy preamps on my MD, and as if that wasn't enough there's not digital out from it...

I've been waiting for the Fostex FR2-LE but it has been delayed for ages now... but I'm starting to think that I'm not up for paying 800 euro's for a recorder, and then I will need a new mic... probably end up at 1100/1200 euro... getting a little bit out of control for sampling microsounds

so besides a cheaper but still nice recorder (and maybe some seperate pre-amp... but was hoping not too) I will need to get a good mic for both outdoor and indoor recording. want to record stuff both in & out-doors, and mostly stuff from a very near distance (like bugs and stuff like that, some kind of shotgun thing is needed I suppose?)

New Guy · Post by **New Guy** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:34 pm

that soundman forum is full od spam and trojans man, dont click the links there!
but soundman is a good choice indeed!

i have a sony md recorder and i use this mic with it
http://electro.1store.cz/SONY/elektroni ... 9.ce7).jpg
ecm 719, its a good mic you just have to learn how to hold it and stuff so you dont record your own breath, coat noise and all those stuff.

this mic cost like $70. but if you can afford a better one, i would suggest to get the soundman.

fl0w · Post by **fl0w** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:09 pm

my archos gmini 402 (200€) has a line input, 20 GB of hard disk, it records in wav and you'll probably concede USB is a kind of digital output

This said, I don't know which mike you could use with it...

clubfoot · Post by **clubfoot** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:51 am

I use Minidisc with a 20euros stereo mic. I think it's a Sennheiser mic - it's got a hot-shoe mount for attaching to video cameras and makes some great recordings. The last stuff I played with was recording the metro entering and exiting the station. Worked just great.

idealstandard · Post by **idealstandard** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:50 pm

Might be an interesting read:

http://www.quietamerican.org/links_gear.html

(anything on the quiet american site is interesting though)