[LAU] best mic(s) for environmenal recording?

[Mike Taht]

This is a bit off topic for this list, but I thought I'd try (all my
recording gear is 96khz/24 bit & Linux based, does that help?)

I am selling my house deep in the santa cruz mountains, and I think the
things I'm going to miss most is the birdsong and other sounds of the
wilderness around me. So, I keep thinking, I should pick up a good mic soon
(stereo mic, or matched pair) - either buy, borrow, or rent for a few days -
and record it all, so I can recreate the ambiance and memories of this place
one day in the future.

Recordings done outside over the years with my available mics - SM-57,
SM-58, an AT tube mic, etc - have all generally been kind of hissy and not
up to the quality of other environmental recordings I've heard. Maybe that's
also a factor of the pre-amps I've used, or inadaquate screening for wind.

I have daydreams about somehow making this into a high-resolution surround
sound mix, or doing an enormous recording (from dawn til dusk, from dusk til
dawn)

But I'm WAAAY out of my depth here as to how to get the best recording of
the outdoors.



-- 
Mike Taht
PostCards From the Bleeding Edge
http://the-edge.blogspot.com
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