Klarinet Archive - Posting 000085.txt from 2002/08

From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] please: your advise on recording equipment
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:14:34 -0400

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Jeroen T. Salm wrote:

> I have searched on the internet. The Nomad Creative (III) is (indeed)
> (almost 500 dollars/Euros) a hell of a machine. But: in the newsgroup
> of Creative "they" mention that recording by microphone isn't working
> alright (you don't have vu-meters for instance to adjust the recording
> level), lots of difficulties with long recordings, and problems finding
> the good combination microphone... what setup (mike) do you have, and
> what is the result? As good as DAT? You can by a Nomad Creative
> microphone, but that is just for speech (quality)...

It is true that there are not vu-meters for the nomad - this is why you
need to have everything amplified and mixed before it reaches the nomad. I
don't actually own any recording equipment, at this time, so I just end up
plugging the Nomad into other people's equipment; one setup was two shure
mics hooked into a Mac laptop, and I just went line-out from the laptop
(I don't know what software he was using to do the recording on the
machine). The quality is as good as DAT and better than MD (because MD is
compressed). I've never done any recording longer than about two hours,
but you may have trouble if you don't have ample RAM or disk space on your
machine, as the .wav files are rather large, and require a lot of memory
to manipulate.

I hope this helps,

jeremy
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