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

[Mike Taht]

On 4/13/07, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Mike Taht wrote:
> > Thanks everybody for all the feedback. I spent a lot of time lusting
> > after the km-184s, but I decided to try my luck with the matched pair
> > Rode NT5s, being that they cost quite a bit less. In combination with
> > the digimax fs, recording at 96khz, the results were pretty darn good.
> > With headphones on I could hear the whole neighborhood (at about 8PM on
> > a friday, so there was some stuff going on a few blocks away, dogs
> > barking, and at least 5 cars drove by.....)
> >
> > Later, I sat about 20 feet behind the the mics that were facing the
> > forest - and recorded http://www.taht.net/~mtaht/outside_cybernation.ogg
> > on guitar, just to get a feel for what the relative levels were like in
> > this decidedly non-optimal scenario. (the above ogg is downsampled to
> > 48khz, and I haven't actually listened to it yet. Remember that it's
> > supposed to be at a fairly low volume).
>
> It's so low that most of it's practically inaudible to me on headphones,
> and mostly inaudible through stereo amp and speakers. And either there's
> no guitar on the right channel, or the right volume level is zilch.
> Outside of that, it does sound clean and clear.


thx for listening. On  my ogg I  do hear quite a bit - from crickets in the
beginning to cars zooming by....

I am researching like crazy -
http://www.wikirecording.org/Mid-Side_Microphone_Technique - looked
interesting... but I can't do that with NT5s....

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