11 Apr
2007
11 Apr
'07
11:12 a.m.
Arnold Krille wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 schrieb Dragan Noveski:
but arnold, the original question was "which mic for outside recording
of singng birds".
Mike Taht wrote:
As you need to EQ/Master afterwards, this shouldn't be the big problem. But
you should select the characteristics of the mic with respect to what you
want to record:
Doing a live-recording of a concert you don't want to use omni-directional
mics as you want the sound coming from stage in front of the mic, not the
foh-man talking to the light-crew behind the mic.
For environmental recordings where you are in the middle of the happening you
could use omnis.
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.
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!
And wether a mic records linear from 0Hz is dependent
on the price and not so
much on the characteristics. In fact I strongly doubt that any mic will be
linear (which is defined to be less than 3dB around the average) below 20Hz!
Arnold
you are partly right here, a 3€ omni-mic will not do a job - it is
always a price question, but from the wikipedia link, robin searched for us:
"Omnidirectional microphones, unlike cardioids, do not employ resonant
cavities as delays, and so can be considered the "purest" mikes in terms
of low coloration; they add very little to the original sound. Being
pressure-sensitive they can also have a very flat low-frequency response
down to 20 Hz or below."
of course, 0Hz i mentioned is strongly theoretically, but a good
omni-mic will do better here as a good cardioid.
cheers,
doc