greenmachine

oops, double post

Sorry, I have to disagree again, even at loud rock music concerts, there can be a real perception of depth, the wall of noise you're experiencing could be caused from overloading your ears, I've did some recordings at a very loud rock concert recently. While being there, it indeed sounded pretty much like a mess, but after rehearing it at home, it sounds very clear, because it's not played back at such a brutal volume anymore. All I can suggest is to protect your valuable hearing. You can listen to some samples here.

I can't recommend a certain model, but I've made very good experiences with binaurals... If you want to hear samples, I invite you to take a look at my gallery. It's propably not your kind of music, but you'll get the idea...

perception of depth = room information It's not just about differences in volume, there's also phase and other information i can't think of at the moment.

What an AwFuL idea! The mono signal already contains a lot of room information, echoes, coloring of the sound if you're recording in a room (what's pretty much always the case). Giving it additional artificial room information would just make a mess of the recording. It would work with a direct signal, like a voice directly into a very close microphone, or artificially created sounds from synthesizers though.

An excerpt from your provided link: If you can't separate them, I wouldn't destroy the construction by disassembling it, rather look for different microphones since good ones are not too expensive nowadays. It's up to you if you want a realistic, the room acoustics involving sound or just directly the noise source. For the first I'd use a binaural omnidirectional construction, for the latter a mono cardioid microphone directing straight at the source. Personally, I clearly prefer the first method for recording music. What's the definition of stereo? Isn't it basically a source signal with room information?

Besides from separating the microphones physically it makes a huge difference if there's an object (like your head, a dummy head, books, a carton, just about anything) between them to prevent soundwaves coming from one side hitting the microphone on the other side directly. It separates the channels even more. (Maybe someone can provide a link for a more technical explanation.)

I'm looking forward to it.

Good effort, it's not too distorted anymore - now try to concentrate on recording in real stereo, it sounds almost monophonic...

FM quality should be well below HI-SP quality, so if you don't have the original recording, high end equipment , good ears and practice in detecting artifacts, I'd say it's indistinguishable from uncompressed PCM in most cases.

Depends on your quality demands, I'd say the compression in SP mode is such good that it sounds almost the same, but you can try for yourself by doing a double-blind listening-test... The LP mode gives a significant degradation of sound quality IMHO though.

Of course, upload the recording and use an audio editor to normalize it. Personally, I use Adobe Audition, but there are freeware solutions such as Audacity as well.

There are more issues, for example I seem to have to rate my own file before I can view the results... Please consider my nagging as constructive criticism, it's a great forum with great people here...

Good idea, it's a microphone with built-in power supply (although it's voltage of 1.5 volts might be somewhat low). It could work. Try it this way with a propably pretty high level (maybe even up to level 30). I wouldn't suggest to get too close, rather look for an acoustically good spot and accept the often negligible disadvantages of a somewhat too low level.

lol, what an interesting solution! How about getting farther away from the musicians using the mic?

Dynamic range? I was talking about the frequency response... What exactly do you mean with "it is still going to struggle"? I don't think you will overload anything if you use the suggested battery-box-line-in configuration, at the utmost the microphones if they're not suited for extreme levels, but even some of these can be optimized, shown here, he claims they would accept far more than 130 dB with his suggested modification, which is hell of a lot, believe me; you're sooner deaf than your recording would clip...

I don't know about the options, but soundquality-wise almost all minidisc recorders are so good that you should think more about the input signal - the microphones, placing and powering of these, maybe external preamplifiers...

That's not the main reason for increased noise, basically you lower the signal from the microphone while the noise of the preamplifier stays the same -> lower Signal to Noise Ratio. Even if you have perfect contacts, the SNR will decrease.

Ideally they should reach as high as possible without hitting the max, practically it's better to leave some headroom (lowering the level a little bit) if you don't know how loud the loudest part will be, to avoid clipping - you can normalize the recording afterwards if it's too quiet. Instead of spending your money for a suboptimal solution (I've tried it for myself and the recording was still distorted, additionally it decreases the signal to noise ratio), why not build your own "battery box", which will supply the microphones with a higher voltage and this way allows higher sound pressure levels for the mics. It's very easy to build one yourself, you just need a condenser and a resistor for each channel - an example is shown here ... For recording very loud sounds it is suggested to use the mics with such a BB through the Line In of your recorder. For realistic sounding records, I'd suggest to use binaural microphones (shown on the same site). Also you may want to pay attention to the links at the bottom. edit: I just took a look at the specifications of your mic, a frequency response of 100 to 15000Hz is adequate for spoken word, but not too exciting for music (it basically means that it can't record the lowest and the highest frequencies) - the human ear can hear about 20 to 20000 Hz and there are inexpensive microphones which can pick up that whole range as well... Check out some samples of a recording i did a few days ago, using (pseudo-?) binaural microphones at a rather loud concert here

Maybe I'm too silly, but how can I access the older albums, it just seems to show the 5 newest...

none, if possible

I'd prefer to download the files with their original filenames instead of something like gallery_xxxx_xx_xxxx. Is it possible?

what's the internal resistance of these attenuators?

Sound-wise near perfection, but i would have cut out the click in the very first track and normalized both shows. Congratulations to these fabulous recordings! How did you set up / place the microphones?