We use Canon GL-1 DV camcorders, with an attachment that allows stereo XLR inputs into the mic input on the camcorder. Works great. And the newer GL-2 has the XLR inputs built in from what I understand.
The Shure VP-88 is a great stereo mic, and can be had for around $800, including battery (which makes a mixer or separate phantom power unit unnecessary). But are you just needing the audio, and not the video? Why not a decent stereo room mic like the VP-88, a small mixer, and a mid-line sound card like the M-Audio Delta DiO 2496 to get the audio into the computer? Isn't MD format different than CD? (lower quality?) Tim On 2/28/03 5:18 PM, "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28.02.2003 22:06 Uhr, One of the McKays wrote > >> I would like to record accompaniments for students and performances of >> students and am looking for advice, please. >> >> One thought is a digital video camera. I was knocked out by the sound >> quality from a Sony camera recording 2 flutes and piano with its own >> microphone a couple of years back. > > Well... if you want to get reasonable sound quality for this kind of thing > you should have at least a medium quality stereo microphone, detached from > the camera (it will need to be closer to the music than the camera). The > bottle neck will probably be the built in mic preamp, but to get a decent > combination of mic and preamp your are looking at an investment of several > thousand dollars US. >> >> I am also interested in Mini Disk recorders. I like the idea of being able >> to take your little player anywhere and then bring it home and burn a CD >> from the downloaded files. > > Are you sure it works that way round? The Minidisk players I looked at could > only do it the other way round, ie you could use a USB connection to load > files from the computer to the player, but not the other way round. > Otherwise you will need a MD player with digital out and a soundcard that > has digital in. Otherwise you will have to make analogue transfers from the > line out of the player to the computer's soundcard. Not all soundcards will > be good enough for that. >> >> Can anyone tell me if you can download audio only files from a digital video >> camera, please? Do they use USB format, or do I need to install another >> format such as Firewire? > > I am not an expert, but I believe the prefered format for digital video > transfers is Firewire (I think that's what it was originally invented for). >> >> In Australia, it would seem that a video camera would be about twice the >> price of a decent mini disk player. However, I don't think mikes are >> included with Mini Disk players. > > Johannes _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
