Best recording devices

Unread post by **mikka** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:54 pm

Hey all,

Ive been trying to decide what type of recorder to buy and I was wondeing what you think .. there are good and bad points to both digital and basic tape recorders.

Digital.

Good Points.
They are easily copied and shared with mininal sound quality loss. A better overall sound recording quality.

Against.
They clip the higher and lower ends of the spectrum (though would be hard to pick up with the human ear I think). Price. Cant be easily tampered with.

Tape.
Good points.
Records the exact sound without and so called "clipping". Price

Against.
Loss of sound quality from tape everytime played back or copied.

I guess all it boils down to if you want the full spectrum of sounds recorded if your in the right place at the right time.

What are your thoughts ?

P.s. I also have a parabolic mic that Most of the time I would use to listen

Thanks

Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:22 pm

Hi Mikka
Parabolic, Can you plug a tape deck into it or not as the one we have you can...Also have you got out yet.or is the car dead and what sort off rottor ya got

Cheers Us.
P.S next recorder we get maybe a Dat recorder.But wil wait and see.

Unread post by **brigalow** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:05 am

Mikka,
A lot depends on your budget.
If you have the funds i would go DAT .
The Parabolic Mic that Nigel & Jeannie have would
be my choice of Mics. A company that makes them is
http://www.silvercreekindustries.com
Another way is to check out Ornitholigical sites as
Ornthologists use this sort of equipment in the field.
A friend of mine and myself built one as a bit of an
experiment for field use from a kit and used a Sony
MD Recorder to record the sounds, it worked fairly
well. Nigel seen it when he came down to NSW for
for some field work with dean and others from this forum. Another thing get some sound software to clean
up your recordings.

Brigalow

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Unread post by **mikka** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:43 pm

Hey nigel and jeannie,

The para I got is the good one. With all the plugs ect ect. Havent had a Chance this week just been was to busy and im going away this weekend, But I have made sure I have nothing planed this week coming up so ill prob go out listening this mon to thur

and see what happens.

As for my rotary its a RX-4 coupe,13b, webber ect ect all the good bits

and yeah the civic is dead but I have a new work ute to use whenever I want

.

Brigalow ,
Thanks for your post I will defanatly take your advice and look into it. Thanks a million

Cheers Mikka

Unread post by **Alex** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:48 pm

take me for a drive in the RX-4

I'm going to sound awful stupid here, but what is a parabolic mic?

Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:57 pm

Directional Mic.

DMH

Unread post by **Darren** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:41 am

It's an amazing toy ! The first time I used N&J's , I had so much fun walking the bush at night with no light at all ! It made the job so much easier and to sit and listen to every little sound ! Sounds you would just never of had heard with out it ! I guess it kind of felt like being a bat ! Being able to hear but no see ,but feel in total control !

Unread post by **Dion** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:06 am

Sound like a pretty good toy! How much are we talking for one of these! And while were on the subject does anyone no of some good night vision goggles worth looking at?

Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:31 pm

Hi Chewy
Price for a para is about 500 aussie dollars.
Oz Spy at tingalpa is where we got ours.
Make.Bionic ear Silver creek industries Manitowoc Wisconsin.
Can get another form of device that works the same BUT you must be alone as it picks up everything around you were as this one only does sound where it is pointed.
They also sell night gear that is Gen.2 that sell for about 800 bucks and work well as a mate has a set we borrow...Small compact unit sits over one eye.
Chews the batteries but ..
Cheers
Alex dont wory about going for a ride in the rx 4 we want to go in his mates mazda 1000 ute get him to send ya some pics of this piece of work..Traction is going to be a problem one would think

Unread post by **mikka** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:10 pm

Priced a sony MD today .. $580 with a remote microphone and 1 gig flash card (the middle of the range model)

Even comes with a radio

. Pick it up tomorrow prob then just need a 1 into 2 socket and look out world .. here I come

Ps .. lol nigel and jeannie tracton and that cars shouldnt ever be used in the same sentance !!

Unread post by **Alex** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:45 am

Alex dont wory about going for a ride in the rx 4 we want to go in his mates mazda 1000 ute get him to send ya some pics of this piece of work..Traction is going to be a problem one would think

I've seen pics of it, it's a monster, a very.. appealing monster at that

mikka, a 1 gig flashcard? Man, that's not too bad. Could get a fair amount of sound on there, and it'd be encoded at a good quality too.
You can pick up 2 in to 1 out mic jacks from Dick Smith at about $5 i think.

Unread post by **Dion** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:25 pm

Hi Nig&Jean

Thanks for that! 500 bucks doesnt sound that bad.
That other one you were talking about sounds pretty c**p though! Like you were saying, everytime you walk or you had someone with you, you would be picking up your own footsteps

I think I'll go with the para

Cheers

Unread post by **mikka** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:52 pm

Hey chewy .. here is a website link to a line of shops that sell the para mics ...... http://www.ozspy.com.au/contacts/contactsDC.asp.

Got my sony MD today .. and only payed $485 .. just got the one thats takes the normal MD's though.

now its going to take me a few hours to learn how to use it.