I-pod Mics
Euoplocephalus
Join Date: 2003-02-21 Member: 13811Members
Join Date: 2003-02-21 Member: 13811Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Anyone have one?</div> I got a i-pod for christmas, cool though in my opinion more than a little too much for anyone to get me as a gift.
Anyways, I'm making experimental "music", and want a good portable way to collect samples of everyday sounds, traffic, birds, crowds of people...that kinda of stuff. I've heard about the mics for the I-pod at it seems just about ideal; small and portable, and its cheap.
However I've heard a lot of colficting reports of the range and quality. The officail specs say something like 1000 ft. and I've heard people say 5 ft is optimistic. The quality isn't as important, my music is already pretty lo-fi, but the range bothers me...not really feeling like putting my i-pod five feet from a moving car....
So, does anyone have one of these, and care to share what thier experiances with it?
Anyways, I'm making experimental "music", and want a good portable way to collect samples of everyday sounds, traffic, birds, crowds of people...that kinda of stuff. I've heard about the mics for the I-pod at it seems just about ideal; small and portable, and its cheap.
However I've heard a lot of colficting reports of the range and quality. The officail specs say something like 1000 ft. and I've heard people say 5 ft is optimistic. The quality isn't as important, my music is already pretty lo-fi, but the range bothers me...not really feeling like putting my i-pod five feet from a moving car....
So, does anyone have one of these, and care to share what thier experiances with it?
Comments
the "Lo-Fi" quality is b/c it probably usses a very lossy encoding that is designed to capture the human spoken voice range (a very small range when compared to what you are thinking about), and not much else.
I would recomend getting a good quality digital recorder that is designed for capturing nonhuman noises (preferably with a directional mic)