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Good setup for Broadcast quality field recording?

  • 11-11-2011 01:26PM
    #1
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭


    Apologies if I'm in the wrong forum for this one.

    What could you recommend me for field recording (one-to-one interviewing) in terms of recording medium and microphone?

    I've got a Sony portable DAT from ages ago, but there's no digital I/O on it and I don't want to go digital->analogue->digital in order to edit on my PC. I've also got a fairly cheap and cheerful Sharp Mini-Disc recorder - again, no digital I/O on it.

    I've a fairly small budget and I was thinking of getting the Marantz portable recorder, but the in-built bi-directional mic's I think would be unsuitable for vox-pop type recording.

    Any ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    If you can make a good sound recording with what you've got I wouldn't be to worried about converting it from analogue. It's the end result that's important not so much how you got there. Improving the quality of sound can get fairly expensive and spending money is no guarantee of success.


  • #3
    Lemmewinks
    Site Banned Posts: 67 ✭✭Lemmewinks


    DublinWriter wrote: »
    Apologies if I'm in the wrong forum for this one.

    What could you recommend me for field recording (one-to-one interviewing) in terms of recording medium and microphone?

    I've got a Sony portable DAT from ages ago, but there's no digital I/O on it and I don't want to go digital->analogue->digital in order to edit on my PC. I've also got a fairly cheap and cheerful Sharp Mini-Disc recorder - again, no digital I/O on it.

    I've a fairly small budget and I was thinking of getting the Marantz portable recorder, but the in-built bi-directional mic's I think would be unsuitable for vox-pop type recording.

    Any ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    I got one of these and it kicks a*s.

    http://www.thomann.de/ie/zoom_h2.htm

    2 x stereo mics = 4 channel recording. 3 input levels. Perfect for handheld or on the end of a boom. Works off 2 x AA batteries which last for ages. Storage off an SD card.
    Then just USB connect to your computer & copy & paste files off the card.
    It comes with an adapter that screws into the bottom so it'll fit onto a mic stand like an ordinary mic, or can be hand held during interviews.


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