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OUT NEAR CAMBRIDGE last weekend, thinking there’d be a good opportunity to test the DPA 2006C mics in quiet surroundings now all the bits for the new headworn stereo set-up are in place. But things rarely turn out quite the way you expect, and there wasn’t much peace in the countryside:
The lipstick-tube-sized DPA mics were attached by jubilee clips to the headband from a set of Beyerdynamic headphones. Luckily this can be bought as a spare part. With a Sound Devices MixPre-D preamp and a Sony PCM M10 recorder it’s an easy-to-use and very portable arrangement. The mics are covered with Rycote shotgun foams as a matter of course and Rycote furries can be added on top. This gives some protection from wind noise, although not as good as that provided by a blimp.
There’s some slight background hiss and it’d be good to identify where that was coming from. Other drawback: wearing the mics with the furries makes you look like a black-haired Noddy Holder.
The balloonist in the desert is dreaming
The Binaural Diaries of Ollie Hall
The Ragged Society of Antiquarian Ramblers
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology