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james wrote:
I've sought out places near nightclub districts, airports, college houses, etc., for the very reason that I *want* noisy neighbors so that *I* won't be *their* problem. You should be in the frame for a house swap with one of the other posters then :-) Acoustic matchmakers'R'us ! Anahata |
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Ok, I see what you are now finally getting at....
Convert the analog signal to Digital as soon as possible. More equipment in between transportng an analog signal just alows noise to get in. OK, so what I need is something like a MOTU 896 that's cheaper then...THAT is something that has phantom power and converts it to digital to send to the 1394 port... Is there something more portable than the MOTU 896 that can do this? I don't need all those channels right now "Mark & Mary Ann Weiss" wrote in message k.net... "Joseph Oberlander" wrote in message ink.net... I'm having a lot of fun with my Behringer B-1 condenser mics and the MOTU 896. This is the dream setup you want for recording sounds that are inaudible to normal ears. Get these two items. They work and won't break the bank. The improtant part is the 896 or something like it. Plugging a mic into your soundcard isn't going to come close to achieving what you want unless your computer is 2-3 rooms away and you have a very long chord(which has problems as well). Both parts are equally important. A noisy mic isn't going to provide good results, even with preamps as quiet as the ones in the 896. It's a chain. Eliminate all the weak links. -- Take care, Mark & Mary Ann Weiss VIDEO PRODUCTION . FILM SCANNING . DVD MASTERING . AUDIO RESTORATION Hear my Kurzweil Creations at: http://www.dv-clips.com/theater.htm Business sites at: www.dv-clips.com www.mwcomms.com www.adventuresinanimemusic.com - |
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Joseph Oberlander said: The problem with going form a mic to your computer directly is that you have to be literally in another *room* to not pick up the computer. Did you know that when Arnii rents out the Kroobitch, he gives the john a 25% discount if they do it in the same room with his DAW? Wait, of course you knew that. |
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Hmmmmm.....
You sound like you are on to something.....I do have a pretty good rent here...and there is a 1yr old and they put them on the 3rd floor for some odd reason.... There is NO way they should have allowed a family with a 1yr old to be on the 3rd floor knowing full well that number of complaints that they get. "Mark & Mary Ann Weiss" wrote in message nk.net... an old trick for a wall contact microphone was the 4 or 5 inch speaker out of an all American 5 AM tube type radio. The output transformer was mounted to the transducer 4 ohm speaker side 2,000 ohm output tube side. given that or something like that; attach a suitable length of shielded wire to the secondary with the proper connector for the PC mike input, mount or hold or brace the speaker on the ceiling, preferably under the space between the floor joists in the area of the most sound you are trying to capture. This should be a seismic event, baboom baboom. With that kind of transducer, a direct to the LINE IN will do. But you can still expect a lot of distortion and very poor frequency response. Anyway, it sounds like he's in a rent-controlled apartment and the landlord may be trying to get rid of him so he can lease it at today's rates. This happened to a freind of mine who lived in the same apt in the Bronx since 1957. They brought in a noisy family with a lot of kids and they jumped up and down just as hard as they could all night to make life miserable for my friend, who was still paying 1960s rent rates. He eventually moved to Florida. Those situations just can't be won. -- Take care, Mark & Mary Ann Weiss VIDEO PRODUCTION . FILM SCANNING . DVD MASTERING . AUDIO RESTORATION Hear my Kurzweil Creations at: http://www.dv-clips.com/theater.htm Business sites at: www.dv-clips.com www.mwcomms.com www.adventuresinanimemusic.com - |
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Wow, ok....
I just don't have time and I need good sound and I can't risk spending all the time and have a chance of it not working up to expectations. But I will definately keep that in mind "David Ballinger" wrote in message news:7vY6e.1877$Z73.1549@lakeread04... "pcomlow" wrote in message news:HdG6e.38693$Xs.19682@fed1read03... I am trying to record extremely low level sounds. These sounds are people's footsteps from an "upstairs apartment" and people closing doors.....very low level sounds... I have a omnidirectional conference microphone from RadioShack http://www.radioshack.com/product.as...uct_id=33-3022 I am using Wavepad softwarea and the results are not good. I set the sampling at 96k and I can barely hear these sounds. I tried amplifying them 400% and then doing a noise reduction, but that's not great... I really need to record this so that it is reproduceable and when you listen to a recording, it sounds like the soft footsteps.... NOTE: There is no creaking of the floors here It's thump, thump, thump..... Hi Dave B. here, with another cheap and dirty fix. Mr. Pcomlow, what kind of a scrounger can you be? are you willing to go hunting? Assuming sensitivity is more important than fidelity, small radio speakers make OK microphones. an old trick for a wall contact microphone was the 4 or 5 inch speaker out of an all American 5 AM tube type radio. The output transformer was mounted to the transducer 4 ohm speaker side 2,000 ohm output tube side. given that or something like that; attach a suitable length of shielded wire to the secondary with the proper connector for the PC mike input, mount or hold or brace the speaker on the ceiling, preferably under the space between the floor joists in the area of the most sound you are trying to capture. This should be a seismic event, baboom baboom. If you don't have enough gain on your pc audio card, you can't beat an external preamp sadly or happily for the price of the parts to build one you can pick up an inexpensive mixer at a pawn shop, I found a Behringer UB-802 for $25.00, Its bare bones only got 2 XLR or quarter inch phone jacks in does have phantom 48 volts and I'm guising about 115 db of gain from end to end a versatile little input problem solver. Happy hunting____________ ;-) |
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