<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">david</b> <<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mike Taht wrote:<br>> Thanks everybody for all the feedback. I spent a lot of time lusting<br>> after the km-184s, but I decided to try my luck with the matched pair<br>> Rode NT5s, being that they cost quite a bit less. In combination with
<br>> the digimax fs, recording at 96khz, the results were pretty darn good.<br>> With headphones on I could hear the whole neighborhood (at about 8PM on<br>> a friday, so there was some stuff going on a few blocks away, dogs
<br>> barking, and at least 5 cars drove by.....)<br>><br>> Later, I sat about 20 feet behind the the mics that were facing the<br>> forest - and recorded <a href="http://www.taht.net/~mtaht/outside_cybernation.ogg">
http://www.taht.net/~mtaht/outside_cybernation.ogg</a><br>> on guitar, just to get a feel for what the relative levels were like in<br>> this decidedly non-optimal scenario. (the above ogg is downsampled to<br>> 48khz, and I haven't actually listened to it yet. Remember that it's
<br>> supposed to be at a fairly low volume).<br><br>It's so low that most of it's practically inaudible to me on headphones,<br>and mostly inaudible through stereo amp and speakers. And either there's<br>no guitar on the right channel, or the right volume level is zilch.
<br>Outside of that, it does sound clean and clear.</blockquote><div><br>thx for listening. On my ogg I do hear quite a bit - from crickets in the beginning to cars zooming by....<br><br>I am researching like crazy - <a href="http://www.wikirecording.org/Mid-Side_Microphone_Technique">
http://www.wikirecording.org/Mid-Side_Microphone_Technique</a> - looked interesting... but I can't do that with NT5s.... <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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