On an impulse last week I bought an FR2, thinking it would produce a better result than my FR2-LE. Without having done any serious testing, but having done...
I just noticed sth strange with my pmd661 I wanted to test if the noise I got on a recording was due to the mics I used or the pre-amps of the machine, so I...
I've posted a mystery sound that was sent to me by a man in Michigan. His explanation of the sound is attached, and I have cleaned it up and boosted it a bit...
Folks, I'm trying to determine which hand-held recorder has the most sensitive, directional (and lowest self-noise) built-in microphones. I own and use a...
umm, yeah. What do you guys/gals use to sit on what recording long takes? I just use my rain-pants folded up to stop the dampness and find a comfy spot (at the...
My problem is making my MP3 files display the MP3 extension when converted with Adobe Audition 2. Adobe Audition 2 is not adding the MP3 file extension after...
Hi, I have an M-Audio Microtrack II and am looking for an external power supply that I could plug in through the USB port. Have any of you successfully done...
I purchased the Edirol R-09HR and Sound Professionals SP-TFB-2 binaural microphones, and I am very pleased. I can see myself building up quite an audio...
Parallel to the loss of natural soundscapes: The NYTimes published an article about efforts to record the sounds of human languages before the speakers vanish....
Recently the question came up as to whether the Sony PCM D50 resampled the digital input SPDIF stream, thus potentially compromising the integrity of a better...
A participant in the Tapers Section forums uses a Sonosax MiniR82 recorder. He experienced crosstalk between channels. With some experimenting, he identified...
Recorded this morning (6 am) in Andorra Natural Area, Philadelphia. I thought for sure that it was a Black-And-White Warbler this morning when I heard it. But...
Hello, I wanted to be able to upload some of my files so that I could send links to people, put up on blog, etc. Are there any free services that people use...
Hi folks, Yesterday I played a bit with my SONY PCM-D50 and made a few recordings with its inbuilt microphones (set to the 120 degree position) at a pond in...
Hi folks, I'm gearing up for a couple of extended remote recording trips in Hawaii in August, and consider my back-up gear a little thin. My usual set-up for...
Having finally solved the problem of uploading piccies to the Photos folder, I have just posted a piccie in the LS-10 folder of the individual muffs I made for...
For environmental sound artists, phonographers, nature recordists.... New CDR release on khora: http://www.khora.org.uk/pages/releases.html figure and ground...
I'm curious about Sony's arrangement of the 90 degree, near-coincident microphones in the PCM-D1 and PCM-D50 recorders.. The capsules are about 1cm apart --...
I have made a cable for my ME-66 microphone from steel cable made for a Sennheiser lapel microphone. The cable is 40" long and has 4.3 Ohms resistance. Will...
Hi Folks! I'm at the moment waiting for an FR2 I've purchased to arrive. On looking at various sites on the net I found by accident, that it's possible to use...
Dear Nature Recordists, I am looking for software that can produce an on-screen cursor / or bar / or indicator of some sort that travels precisely over a...
There's been some discussion here recently of the challenges of capturing good stereo images of sea and surf, so I repeated my recorder comparison (of the...
I finally scored a pair of AT3032's today and am wondering about how to match a stereo pair... I don't recall A-T selling them as a matched pair, so maybe a...
Hi, Heres a sample recorded with a dummy head placed close to the waves. Recorded on Monte Gordo Beach Portugal / Algarve at 10 PM. This is cropped from a...
I finally got around to making simultaneous recordings (of a very boring suburban soundscape) with a sampling of current generation handheld recorders: * Nagra...
Thanks to the ever-vigilant team at the Tapers Section forums, here is information about two new audio recorders. First is the Olympus LS-11, a revision of the...
Fostex has released details of a new field mixer called the FM-3. The device has three inputs (XLR, with phantom power) and two outputs. The mixer will run...
