bartidge Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Hi-I just recently bought a used Sony MZ-R700 MD recorder.I'd like to use it for recording wildlife sounds/birds/etc. outdoors...Can anyone recommend a good microphone for this that is economical?I read a thread where the Visivox binaural mic w/ pre-amp was recommended, but then read another thread where that's not a good choice because the MZ-R700 doesn't have 'low frequency sensitivity' or something...Anyways, I'm a newbie and would appreciate any advice.Thx.-bartidge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 I think a highly directional (mono) mic would be best to record sounds from great distances. Think of it like a tele lens in photography. If you're close enough, results can be more realistic with good omnidirectional ('binaural') microphones. The lack of a low sensitivity setting shouldn't be an issue when recording quiet sounds only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartidge Posted January 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Yes - I was toying with the idea of using a directional shotgun style mic, but now am starting to think that a decent uni-directional centered within some type of parabola or dish might be the ticket...I'm just not sure what mic would work best... I see that some mic's include batteries in them that actually powers the microphone so you can plug directly into the recorder... and other mics use phantom power (which I think means you need some sort of pre-amplifier between the mic and the recorder to power the mic and amplify the wave....Does this sound right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 There are traditional condenser microphones, which need about 48V DC for polarization and pre-polarized electret condenser microphones, which need only 1-10V for the internal FET. Minidisc Recorder's 'plug in power' is approximately in the 2-4V range, which means you can only use electret microphones directly without external phantom power supplies. These power supplies - whether they're 9V or 48V don't preamplify - they just sulpply bias voltage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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