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

[Robin Gareus]

Dragan Noveski wrote:
> 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!
> 

come on Dragan, even you could have dug up "Omnidirectional" ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone#Microphone_polar_patterns


cheers,
robin