tenorman

Mikio, I agree with with A400, Go with the Core Sound Binaurals. I bought mine with a battery pack that included a bass roll off filter about 4 years ago and they have never let me down. I have experimented with other mics, preamps, including everything mentioned on this thread and nothing beats the Core Sound mics for richness of sound and clarity. The set-up I use is a bit more than you might want to deal with at first, but really it gets down to finding a bag, satchel, purse, whatever with enough pockets and such to conveniently carry and hold in place all of the gear you need. I have found several that work at thrift stores and yard sales. I like a bag with a padded pocket for the md; a separate pocket allongside to accomodate the battery pack/bass roll-off filter; with a somewhat rounded shape and conveniently placed folds, tabs, pockets on opposing sides of the bag that I can clip the Core Sound Binaurals to with somewhere between 10 to 18 inches of separation between them. md ~~~~ battery case/roll-off filter ~~~~~cable that Ys to mics clipped to opposing sides of the bag. It helps to have a bag that can carry AC adapter for the md for those choice occasions when you can plug in to a wall outlet, extra mds, extra batteries etc. I have tried many other mics, battery boxes, preamps (both the boost box and the church audio). I finally realised that it's all in the mics. Everybody talks a good game, but Len Moskovitz at Core Sound is truly a pro. He uses less sensitive omnidirectional elements (-65 db) than most of the other manufacturers (-35 to -45 db typically) with excellent signal to noise ratio that he claims he modifies them in some way to reduce the phase shifting that you can sometimes get with binaural mics. I don't know as much as I would like about the technical side of what's happening, but I can't argue with the results. Crystal clear, rich, full, balanced sound that sets my live recordings head and shoulders above everyone else's at the venue, every single time. The web address is: http://www.core-sound.com/mics.html The educational info he puts out there is worth the visit even if you end up going with another option. Good luck!

I have both the microphone madness and Core Sounds bass rolloff filters. I prefer the Core Sound.

I have purchased nearly a dozen stereo mics and by far the best of the bunch are the modified Core Sound Binaurals with battery pack and bass roll-off that I bought about 5 years ago. They are fairly sensitive, omnidirectional, with about 6 feet of separation. They are not ideal for stealth and are not as inexpensive as many of the other mics I have purchased, but they outperform all of the others. If you want a wide dynamic range you really need a mic with its own battery, especially if you are using a Sony recorder. The Sharp old-style MDs supply about twice as much "plug in power" to their Mic Input as do the old-style Sony MD recorders. I have to say that the unidirectional tie clip mics that Sony puts out (ECM917 was one of them) give a very good single point stereo sound with an internal battery and no need for bass-roll off in a very small package.

The errors listed in the tech support article ID28065.doc were specific to the mapping software I was loading. I did not get those errors loading SS (my rh10 is slated to arive tomorrow....). When I read your initial problem and saw that you were working on a computer running XP under SP2, it sounded to me like the problems I was having yesterday. I had never heard of DEP until yesterday. The suggested workaround that the mapping software company gave me fixed my installation problem immediately and it only cost me the 5 or ten minutes necessary to reboot my customer's computer a couple of times. Just because Sony's intallation program didn't catch any errors doesn't mean that the program installed properly. The software company that pointed me to the workaround in the attachment I posted has some excellent programmers and may have added a higher level of error checking to their software installation program than does Sony. So, no I am not at all sure that this will resolve the problem, but I think there is a good chance that it might. If you are nervous about messing with your boot.ini file, you might want to put the question to the tech support folks at Sony. One of their analysts might be glad to investigate whether DEP could be causing your problems. Tell them what type of hardware you are using and let them test it out on a similar machine running XP under SP2. Again, good luck.

What I was trying to point to is that the problem is the result of new security measures that were added to Windows XP when you installed SP2. SS2.3 might have worked fine prior to installing service pack 2, and would continue to function properly after installing SP2. Service pack 2 interferes with loading new software. I don't think it would affect existing programs that were installed before you put SP2 on your machine. When, however, you remove SS2.3 and try to install SS3.0 or SS3.1 on an XP machine with Windows XP SP2 installed and DEP enabled (which is the default under SP2), the new "Data Execution Prevention" feature might not let SS3.0 or SS3.1 load properly. The suggested workaround in the attachment above (ID28065.doc) describes how to first modify the boot.ini file to turn off the DEP feature, in steps 1 through 6. Then to reboot and load your software in step 7. Then to turn the DEP security feature back on in step 8. If you are going to reformat your harddrive, it wouldn't hurt to try this approach first. If you do go ahead and reformat your harddrive, you might want to load SS3.1 prior to installing SP2. Good luck and please let us know how things work out.

[attachmentid=214] ID28065.doc