On 22/12/11, Dario Bonazza, discombobulated, unleashed: >1 - I'd like a directional mic for recording at a concert, hopefully getting >music instead of public noise.
Mate, I hate to say this but with a cheap and cheerful camera-mounted 3.5mm jack unbalanced mic, you are not going to get the sound you think you are! I use a Sennheiser MKH-416 mic - one of the very best (if not the best) directional microphones and when I am shooting at a concert, the only way to get decent sound is to forget that and plug up to the sound mixer's outputs! Usually they are very polite but sometimes you get a Cory Waters to deal with -------> ;-) However, I appreciate that you are simply wanting to record ambient audio, so working within those limitations - and once you have got a mic you are happy with (and hopefully Rob or Cory might be able to advise on the impedance question you have elsewhere in this thread) then I would make sure you sit well back and in the middle somewhere if the speakers are either side of the stage. I suspect that because concerts like to churn it out loud, and with no way of adjusting the input level manually, let alone monitoring it, you will find the automatic gain control in the camera - if indeed it has one - will be struggling to compensate. In extreme cases you get a 'pumping' effect which, when listened to later, will cause you to ram empty wine bottles in your ears in despair! That's if you can make out the pumping music through the mini-jack hum. But be positive :-) Good luck! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
