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

On 4/10/07, Brad Fuller <brad(a)sonaural.com> wrote: Never crossed my mind. Interesting. I can certainly see the wind noise dropping out, and perhaps I'd capture the scrabbling of a squirrel on a tree that way.... I've mostly been thinking a pair of fairly small diaphram mics like gefell M930 **would do well, or something similar, and even smaller, like the M200 or M300 series. I'm still researching for mics with the lowest self noise possible - at these low volumes that strikes me as critical. Also, resistance to temp changes.... Yesterday I picked up a presonus digimax FS 8 mic preamp. As I have a rme-multiface which can do 96k the ADAT lightpipe support sold me, and long term the ability to put in sends struck me as useful. The reviews seemed good. I think what I'm going to do is put *all* my mics out there, record ~8 tracks with the above unit and my other pres, then listen to what works... fill up a few hard disks.... Last night we had a very light drizzle and recording this morning would have been PERFECT - no wind, that sort of dampened feeling you get from fog, yet not too damp, and birds, birds, everywhere, in 3 dimensions..... Maybe just my cheaper mics... I hate the idea of the damp killing 'em. I am grateful for the ton of mail from everyone on this topic, but I have to run out today before I can absorb it all, I'll comment more this evening. (nice blog, brad - http://bradfuller.com/blog/2007/02/08/the-ultimate-multimedia-environment-p… be loading up my player right now with the podcasts from GDC 2007 but can't find them so far) -- -- Mike Taht PostCards From the Bleeding Edge http://the-edge.blogspot.com