Dragan Noveski wrote: > Mike Taht wrote: >> This is a bit off topic for this list, but I thought I'd try (all my >> recording gear is 96khz/24 bit & Linux based, does that help?) >> >> I am selling my house deep in the santa cruz mountains, and I think >> the things I'm going to miss most is the birdsong and other sounds of >> the wilderness around me. So, I keep thinking, I should pick up a good >> mic soon (stereo mic, or matched pair) - either buy, borrow, or rent >> for a few days - and record it all, so I can recreate the ambiance and >> memories of this place one day in the future. >> >> Recordings done outside over the years with my available mics - SM-57, >> SM-58, an AT tube mic, etc - have all generally been kind of hissy and >> not up to the quality of other environmental recordings I've heard. >> Maybe that's also a factor of the pre-amps I've used, or inadaquate >> screening for wind. >> >> I have daydreams about somehow making this into a high-resolution >> surround sound mix, or doing an enormous recording (from dawn til >> dusk, from dusk til dawn) >> >> But I'm WAAAY out of my depth here as to how to get the best recording >> of the outdoors. >> >> > hi mike, > i am sorry for not knowing the word now in english (robin will help out). > > for outside recording watch out at the mic-cheracteristica! > what you need is a 'kugel' (in german), in english it should be called > 'ball, or sphere'. > those are the only mics which will record linear, beginning at 0Hz. > off course it should be a condenser and you need a propper preamp! > come on Dragan, even you could have dug up "Omnidirectional" ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone#Microphone_polar_patterns cheers, robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
