Microphone help...

[Guest Anonymous]

I'm planning on doing some field recording... primarily ambient sounds like a park, birds in trees, brook/river, ect. There's a store here that has a Sony ECM-MS907 in-store. Good mic or crap? I've also read something about binaural mics as well. Would that be a better solution? They have some on sale at Soundproffesionals.com. I'm going to minidisc (Sony MZ-N707) so it has a 1/8 inch mini for input. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[thomasraden]

I would go for microphones that you can put in your ears. The Sony microphone you suggest does not have enough channel separation

to get sounds in the nature authentic enough in my experience.

My-minidisc has a good microphone that is useful for true stereo recordings:

http://www.my-minidisc.com/artikel_en.php?ArtNr=92

The drawback with this one is the high sensitivity for wind blowing and also that the cord can make unneccessary sounds in the recording.

One way to improve this is to mount the microphones on some kind of a holder at a distance from each other equal to the distance between

the normal human ears, and also dress the capsules up in thicker windprotection, like woolsocks or something like that.

The microphone amplifier that follows the OKM II is only necessary when recording loud music, to gain a better clipping range.

If you are on a budget, the cheaper OKM I is sufficient enough for good recordings in outdoor nature:

http://www.my-minidisc.com/artikel_en.php?ArtNr=104

Hope this helps

[Guest Anonymous]

You might also want to check out www.stealthaudio.net

we are having a sale right now

thanks

Scott