pbrody

Connect a 3.5 mm mono plug to the output jack of a minidisc recorder-player such a Sony MZ RH910. It picks up one of the output channels. Which does it pick up, the left channel or the right channel? This is relevant if only one of the channels has been recorded to as happens when a mono microphone is connected to the microphone input jack (left channel is recorded to).

I need suggestions for a highly directional microphone for the new Hi-MD player/recorders such as the MZ-RH10. The purpose is record birdcalls in the field and replay them immediately using a portable stero speaker, in this case an Altec Lansing inMotion iM2. What's needed is one high directionality in the record and with maximum volume and naturalness in the replay. I first looked at monophonic shotgun microphones; the Minidisc recorder manuals show however that these record on only one channel, the left. It seems to me that only one channel will therefore replay -meaning only one set of the stereo speaker would be activated limiting the volume and perhaps naturalness of the sound. Otherwise a small shotgun such as the Sennheiser MKE-300 Super-cardoid (designed for camcorders but with the proper 3.5mm mono-miniplug output) would seem ideal. I did find the Sony-ECM ZS90. It's described as switchable with a unidirectional mode and would plug directly into the input jack but don't know if it would do the job well enough. It's a stereo microphone and thus would record and replay on both channels.