COMPLETE [Group] Microphone Showdown 3 - RuthieG

bsdarby · Post by **bsdarby** » January 31st, 2016, 7:39 pm

Title: Love Thee
Author: Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8187
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_32_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:26
Recorded using a Shure, Beta 58A, dynamic microphone, TASCAM US-2x2 interface, Microwave Audio Editor, 2011 MacBook Pro

Title: The Camper
Author: E. Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913)
Text URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5625
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_33_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:17
Recorded using an Electrovoice, RE320, dynamic microphone, CloudLifter interface into TASCAM US-2x2 interface, Microwave Audio Editor, 2011 MacBook Pro

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » January 31st, 2016, 8:27 pm

Thanks Brian

Sections 32 and 33 are PL OK.

Cheers

bsdarby · Post by **bsdarby** » February 1st, 2016, 11:34 am

Algy,

I'll take two more and max it out, if you please.

Thanks

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » February 1st, 2016, 9:13 pm

bsdarby wrote:Algy,

I'll take two more and max it out, if you please.

Thanks

Certainly, Brian.

Sections 34 and 35 are yours.

Cheers

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » February 2nd, 2016, 2:13 pm

"I'll take two more and max it out, if you please."

Must be some of that high-stakes Silicon Valley poker I hear about.

Algy, do you think the final presentation of this would benefit from the table being grouped into price-ranges, say, cheap (under $100), medium, expensive?

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » February 2nd, 2016, 3:29 pm

SonOfTheExiles wrote:"I'll take two more and max it out, if you please."

Thanks SOTE

Sections 36 and 37 are yours.

Ruth might like to comment on the price list suggestion. Of course, it would have to include the cost of the interface and XLR cable where these are used.

Cheers

SonOfTheExiles · Post by **SonOfTheExiles** » February 2nd, 2016, 4:06 pm

Err, no, the first part was a quote from the previous post, Algy. I only own one mike.

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » February 2nd, 2016, 4:08 pm

Ruth might like to comment on the price list suggestion.

Seems a good idea to me, as long as I don't have to work it all out

. Perhaps put them in approximate order of cost, and add something in the summary like "Sections 1 - 10 are recorded with equipment costing under $xx; Sections 11 - 30 with equipment costing between $xx and $xxx" etc. Or maybe grouping internal mics together first.

Ruth

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » February 2nd, 2016, 4:12 pm

SonOfTheExiles wrote:Err, no, the first part was a quote from the previous post, Algy. I only own one mike.

Sorry, SOTE, for the misunderstanding.

MW has been amended.

OF course, you could go out and buy two more microphones, as many folk have done.....

Cheers

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » February 2nd, 2016, 4:23 pm

RuthieG wrote:
Ruth might like to comment on the price list suggestion.
Seems a good idea to me, as long as I don't have to work it all out .

The best price guide would probably be Amazon (US), although prices for equipment do vary from country to country.

Of course, such an exercise could result in a sales boost for the Blue Yeti - at $US80 there are few other microphones which can compare with it for value.

Perhaps, Blue and Samson should be paying us for all the nice things that we have said about their products over the years...

Cheers

bsdarby · Post by **bsdarby** » February 2nd, 2016, 5:26 pm

Ante Up!

Title: In the Autumn Grass
Author: Hamlin Garland (1860 - 1940)
Text URL: https://archive.org/details/prairiesongsbein00garluoft
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_34_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:18
Recorded using an AKG P220 XLR condenser microphone, TASCAM US-2x2 interface, Microwave Audio Editor, 2011 MacBook Pro

Title: The Challenge
Author: Corporal John William Streets (1886 - 1916)
Text URL: https://archive.org/stream/madeintrenchesco00trevuoft#page/155/mode/1up
MP3 URL: https://librivox.org/uploads/ruthieg/microphoneshowdown3_35_various_128kb.mp3
Duration: 1:17
Recorded using a Shure SM35 headworn XLR condenser microphone, TASCAM US-2x2 interface, Microwave Audio Editor, 2011 MacBook Pro

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » February 2nd, 2016, 6:15 pm

bsdarby wrote:Ante Up!

Title: In the Autumn Grass

Title: The Challenge

Thank you Brian

Both readings are PL OK.

I think that the AKG P220 sounds the best of your six.

Cheers

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » February 3rd, 2016, 11:55 pm

The best price guide would probably be Amazon (US), although prices for equipment do vary from country to country.

Well, it can only ever be approximate, of course. I have never seen the Yeti at less than £100 here, which is equivalent to about $150. There's no point quoting actual prices in the project summary, though I suppose one could include a link to a Wiki page (if anyone ever updates it). Perhaps just indications of relative pricing - perhaps least expensive, average, most expensive?

Ruth

bethesdalily · Post by **bethesdalily** » March 17th, 2016, 5:23 am

I'd love to participate in this project, if only to prove to prospective listeners that a setup like mine can still work in an age of ever-changing, constantly-improving technology. I'd like to record a short excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe using an Olympus DM-420 digital voice recorder. I bought it in 2010, but it still works well for my recording purposes!

Algy Pug · Post by **Algy Pug** » March 17th, 2016, 6:58 am

bethesdalily wrote:I'd love to participate in this project, if only to prove to prospective listeners that a setup like mine can still work in an age of ever-changing, constantly-improving technology. I'd like to record a short excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe using an Olympus DM-420 digital voice recorder. I bought it in 2010, but it still works well for my recording purposes!

Thank you.

Section 36 is yours. Enjoy!

Cheers