Klarinet Archive - Posting 000865.txt from 2004/07

From: Andy Raibeck <klari_1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] microphone
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:22:37 -0400

--- Noel Taylor <r.n.taylor@-----.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> ... the majority of MD's with microphone
> level input use a kind of phantom power requiring special microphones wired
> to receive a small amount of power from the MD itself (I think the Sony mike
> someone mentioned is that sort).

I don't know whether you meant the Sony ECM-MS907 model that I mentioned, but
that model is powered from a standard 'AA' battery.

> Most of these microphones aren't great
> quality, but they'll work well with MD equipment because they are designed
> to do so. MD's will work with ordinary electret microphones - despite dire
> warnings about not using them, so that opens a huge range.

Yes, the ECM-MS907 falls into this category.

> The best quality
> solution - but outside your budget - is to get a smallish portable pre-amp
> that can also supply, if necessary, phantom power - then you can use any
> microphone you want. I suppose, someone buying from now who already had a
> good microphone could buy a cheaper MD with only line input and put the
> saved money into one of these pre-amps. I'm not sure how long MD's will be
> around now that MP3 recorders are becoming affordable....

That is something to consider. But MiniDisc isn't dead quite yet. At
http://www.minidisc.org, you can read about a new format, "Hi-MD", that can use
1 GB discs; and I think they've also doubled the effective capacity of the
existing MiniDisc blanks.

Regards,

Andy

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