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

[Dragan Noveski]

Mike Taht wrote:
> 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.
>
>
hi mike,
i am sorry for not knowing the word now in english (robin will help out).

for outside recording watch out at the mic-cheracteristica!
what you need is a 'kugel' (in german), in english it should be called 
'ball, or sphere'.
those are the only mics which will record linear, beginning at 0Hz.
off course it should be a condenser and you need a propper preamp!

cheers,
doc