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Author: Linus Travelli
Date: 2002-06-18 20:09
have any of you tried these?
how is the sound quality?
any recommendations?
i've beenlooking at the olympus DW 90
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-06-18 20:37
I'm going to make a wild stab at it here - just a guess ...
These kinds of things are optimized for voice quality, which is a limited dynamic & frequency range. The price is about half of the cost of a (barely) decent consumer grade mike - I have a mike that costs closer to $300 and it's not even close to being accurate.
The chances of it being reasonable at all is slim I'd think - though I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.
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Author: Bob
Date: 2002-06-18 22:19
Linus: I'm inclined to agree with Mark. You might look at the Sony digital sound recorder that uses the small disks. I have one plus the mike they sell as an accessory and it does a decent job...but don't expect miracles.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2002-06-19 14:01
Much depends on the accoustics, and very much depends on the mike. With both these conditions right, you can achieve reasonably decent results, but as Bob says, don't expect miracles. I use a Sony with a decent mike, for news reporting, listening to minidisks when I'm on the road, for which it is superb, but I'm not very impressed with its ability to record the clarinet. It's hard enough, even with top of the line equipment. Why, I don't know.
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Author: jez
Date: 2002-06-19 14:16
beejay makes an interesting point.
I've always thought that the clarinet is a difficult instrument to record. Why should this be? The other woodwinds seem to come off much better in recordings.
Maybe I just have a different sound in my head from what I hear in broadcasts/recordings. Perhaps this is because we have our teeth on th mouthpiece, so our perception of the sound is much less influenced by what goes in through our ears.
jez
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-06-19 14:23
Ben Maas, a profession sound engineer and avid clarinetist, discusses this problem frequently on the Klarinet mailing list. Do a search on the Klarinet archives for Maas and recording.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2002-06-20 05:19
The vibrato-less sound of the clarinet requires a recorder with almost no wow or flutter. Any variation in the recorder can be heard in the playback.
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Author: Vytas
Date: 2002-06-20 14:59
There is a missing link in your recording setup. Without TUBE microphone preamplifier you will not get professional sounding recording even with your $1000 mike.....V
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-06-20 17:09
Vytas wrote:
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> There is a missing link in your recording setup. Without
> TUBE microphone preamplifier you will not get professional
> sounding recording even with your $1000 mike.....V
Vytas - that's one of those statements that are just too black and white to be true. As any good recording engineer will say - "it depends ...". A tube preamp (whether built into the mike or external) is not required, though some may prefer that type of sound.
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Author: Vytas
Date: 2002-06-20 17:46
Is not required for anyone to play a custom made mouthpiece, but a lot of people do. Is not required for anyone to buy a $2,000 mike peamp, but any REAL recording pro engineer always uses one.....V
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-06-20 18:42
Vytas wrote:
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> Is not required for anyone
> to buy a $2,000 mike peamp, but any REAL recording pro engineer
> always uses one.....V
Yup. Some are MOSFET, though, not tube.
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