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Old 03-20-2002, 10:27 AM
Freeheel Freeheel is offline
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Default Re: Field Recordings. What do you use??

with all due respect, sean, despite DV "spec'ing" the same as Dat, the five dollar converters and preamps in the DV cameras are not even close to the sound of a DAT machine. In the last three years I've used probably 20 different Digital cameras to record sound to. I had 9 of them sent to the shop for repairs due to audio problems. ( most of them sonys ranging in price from 4 to 35 thousand dollars. And even when they work they generally sound no better than a minidisc recorder with a high noise floor.
It's frustrating, but proved to me over and over and....
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