Mic Czech

The microphones finally arrived in the mail last week! I immediately took them into the studio and tryed them out with Gary and Phillip McWhorter (I'm sorry if I spelled your name wrong) up in the D Room. Gary agreed to loan me the Zoom H4 Handy Recorder so I don't have to drag my computer and MBox with me every time I want to do a recording somewhere. It's a little handheld device that records to an SD memory card. It can do up to 24 bit/ 96kHz wave file recordings, 2 inputs -either TRS or XLR (it's got those handy little combo jacks)- at a time and I think it's pretty neat. I was hoping maybe I could use something with SMPTE that could record in HD so I could hook it up to Felipe's ridiculous video cam and make some serious ready-for-Sundance independent art films, but I hear those can sometimes take more than 2 months to make anyway. 

I told Mark Erickson about the project a couple weeks back.

He actually approved it!

 In fact, in contrast to all the other ideas I have come up with so far, he talked me out of more complicated ideas and into simpler ones. Which leads me to think that maybe I had the wrong approach all along (you know, before coming up with this plan). 

He told me to document everything I was going to do - pictures, journal, the whole works. I told him about this blog.

I don't think he was interested. 

I only believe this because when I said "well, actually, I'm blogging the whole thing online with pictures and videos," he said "oh, I won't read a blog."

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Anyhow...the mics!

I got these little guys from a company called Core Sound out of New Jersey. You should check out their site - I think it's like a one or two man operation but they make some cool mics. The mics are indeed binaural but just using them like they are doesn't convey 360 degrees of information. I discovered this upon testing them out. You get the left-right info but front to back is non-existent pretty much. At the very least mostly unintelligible. I inferred this from the beginning, however it's nice to have the sensory proof so i know that the building of this whole contraption isn't just for the sake of having a neat-o looking doodad to carry around and impress people at parties.