Hi again Georgina.

they are on 6ft of good quality cable, Splitting in to a Y about 2 ft from the end.

These 2 microphones are the size of a rubber on a pencil, and held onto Gold plated Sure clips, that can individually change through a variety of degrees, with each turn, it's a steady solid movement, so you know what degree you are at .

I normally keep the cable under a flease, so I'm not tripping up on  these.

the Crockadyle grabs are quite sharp and grip onto your collors very snugly indeed.

I love these microphones and dying to buy another set,

no I'm no good at all at spending money on a websit, as I seem to get lost filling in my bank details.

I think I clicked on Contact Us, so you can describe what you are looking for.

I found them very helpfull in helping you out.   I tried the other week back and left a message of my rquirements, so they could make up a bundle and a Ref no, but they did not get back to me. Perhaps it's lock-down and this part of sales is currently closed.

I have an English friend who has some sight and he is going to get me a set after I send him a bank transfer for the item and postage from England to Scotland.

You'll not be disapointed with them.

The salesman I spoke to a year or so ago, stated that I'd also require an XLR adaptor as these microphones only have a single small minnyjack.

The very small wind screens are however, a pain and easilly lost on a windy day.  I'm going to buy a pack of small elastic bands and roll these over the screen to hold them on snugly.

As they don't use Phantom power you need a small battery pack, which takes a small pp9 battery.  You can purchase ths at the same time.

Incidentally, I was wondering what what kind of sound I'd get on my Zoom F8n if I purchased 2 sets and attached the second set on my colour at the back? 3d perhaps
perhaps?

Andy.





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Hello Andy,

I just tried ordering those  mics. However, I couldn’t find information about international shipping. Nor how many microphones were in the package. i.e. Is this a pair of microphones as you would expect to get the binaural affect? Are there 2 mics on one Shure clip? How do you wear or carry them?

Thanks,

Gena

On 14 May 2020, at 01:10, Andy via groups.io <meikle.aiden@...> wrote:

Hi Casy.

It's:

https://www.microphones.com/microphone.cfm?urlid=BSM-9


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Hi what site do you get thees microphones from?

And about how much do they cost?



On 5/13/2020 4:37 PM, Andy via groups.Io wrote:

Hi Hamit and list.

Please dont underestimate the Binaural sound of street recording.

I've already purchased 3 sets of BSM 9 Binaural microphones from America and as far as I'm concerned the are the bestBinaural microphones on the market today.
.

I'm hoping to purchase a 4th pair but this time, I'm hoping to also purchase an XLR adaptore that will convert my mini jack to an XLR along with a small power pack to plug directly into my Zoom F8n!

So please don't underestimate these wonderful microphones.

Here is a very good example of what I'm talking about.

Earlier today I wrote a mest to Georgena as follows:

Hi again Georgina.

You would not probabally believe this Georgena, unless you put your trust in me totally.

About 15 years ago, when I still held some residual vision, I made a podcast called Andy's farm.

This was posted to Blind Cool Tec and the feedback I got from all over America was absolutely fantastic and very encouraging.

Sadly BCT no longer exscists and I'd love this group to try and do something the same, with podcasts along with sight seeing tours etc. Unfortunately this is yet only another dream!

I was a recently retired visual impairment manager and Pauline was a mental health nurse.

It's a lovely podcast when my wife and i were in our middle 40's.

Pauline and I live in a farm, that is, what is now communly know here in Scotland as a Small Holding.

I had very recently retired as a visual impairment manager with my local authority and Pauline was a mental health nurse.

Georgina. This place called Meikle Aiden farm was paid outright and Pauline and I lived a very special dream.

We have loads of land with set aside just for the wiled burds, rabits and hedhogs and it was just glorious and filled with love and happyness and we had loads of pets and friends from the wildside community, like Guess, Chickens, ducks, Dogs and Cats. It was beutiful.
.

Pauline was hoping to wright a book about our love and struggle we shared hoping that some people may be interested in her book.

Because of her commitments that still eccist , she sadellly did not get around to starting this.

So I made a podcast called Andy's Farm and I still listen to it today and feel very sad for all our dogs and cats that have past on since.

The remarkable thing about this Georgina. is that my podcaste was recorded using a basic Olympus DM 50 along with a pair of Bsm Binauaral microphones series 9 from America.

The quality of the sound in the podcaste i think is remarkable, giving the fact that all of my recording equitment cost little more than £100.

It makes me wonder why have I now have a Zoom F8n and why I'm ready to spend hundreds of pounds on specialised microphones.

So I'm suggesting start by going cheep as I did, learn about sound recording and move up only when You'r sure there is an improvement there for you.

Regarding andy's farm, you can download my old podcaste from the following site:

Sendspace.

https://www.sendspace.com/file/o30z3i

Please, please consider this podcast and let me know if you think a £100 total bill for the equipment was worthwhile .

Very best wishes.

Andy.



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Ah well then as far as binaural goes Larry from APH did it with in ear mics. So these you put in your ear like earpods. They use your ear canal to help shape the sound. He went to work at APH with them and an IRiver recorder. I like the effect, but I don't like how binaural mics as they are little mini me things that go in your ear have an ear bud quality to them. They don't sound as good as an actual mic you hold in your hand.

On 5/13/2020 4:59 PM, John Gurd via groups.io <http://groups.io/> wrote:

I love binaural recordings. Although, as a wee flight of fancy, for that authentic effect you'd want a plastic head to clip them to, or maybe, a head brace to clip them to your own head to be fully immersive as you walk down the street. Lol.

Seriously though, I wonder what the most practical way would be to port these things as a blind pedestrian making a mobile recording in a city street? I'd love to try it.

John


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 13 May 2020 19:46
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Hello,

Not sure if it is these Andy referred to. I would not consider them as being expensive.

https://www.microphonemadness.com/mm-bsm-9-binaural-stereo-microphones-omni-directional-with-shure-premium-holding-clips.html

Apologies, Andy, I didn’t answer your question but as the link suggests you are right in that they are omnidirectional. I ham going to see if I can add them to my collection. They would be fun.

Regards,

On 13 May 2020, at 19:22, Anders Holmberg <anders@...> wrote:

Hi!
What are these bsm 9 mics?
I guess they’re really expensive in price.
/A

13 maj 2020 kl. 00:51 skrev Georgina Joyce <gena@... <mailto:gena@...><mailto:gena@... <mailto:gena@...>>>:

Hello Andy,

The better way and professional way is to mic up each member of the band with a mic that has the dynamic range of that sound source. So a mic for a guitarist is different to that for a vocalist. If the band wanted you to make a CD for them this is what you need to do. These mics would be cardioid polar pattern.

Right at the other end you have a covert recording where you would have a smart phone or other recording device in your pocket and wear a tie pin omnidirectional microphone. Such a recording will not include the close up details as the above professional recording.

Somewhere in the middle of those two extremes is where in the real every day world that we live in. The disadvantage of the omnidirectional is that it picks up everything, so in the pub situation someone puts a glass down on the table and it is now a part of the music. I think every pub has a squeaky door, so when someone goes to the toilet, those sounds become a part of the music. It is not until we start recording we realise how much our mind filters out. If we want to hear the band we unconsciously filter out the noise made by the others in the audience. But the recorder does not filter this out, if the mic hears it then it is heard on the recording. Which actually can sound better than a studio recording because it has character.

In answer to your question. I don’t know. It is for you to try different mics in different situations so that you learn what you like. But you have said that you want a big sound stage which means you want a omnidirectional. When you have experienced the limitations of those mics you might want to narrow the stage to get less of the unwanted noise and better subject matter. It is only you who knows what you want to gain and how much you want to learn against how much you just want to get the job done. We are not computers so can’t be programmed to understand we need some experience to work from. You have done a recording of a dawn chorus and it is up to you. Either to accept that is how it is or think how can I make the next one different.

Regards,

On 12 May 2020, at 23:15, Andy via groups.io <http://groups.io/><meikle.aiden@... <mailto:meikle.aiden@...>> wrote:

Hi again Georgina.

I understand what you are saying about viewing a TV, in terms of sound. So I need to consentrate on an dinamic omnidirectional microphone, to get a wider picture?

Funny though, for I'm also hoping to buy another set of BSM 9's Binaural clip on Microphones from America. These are fantastic microphones with a very good bridth of sound, particually when out and about in a city with all the traffic and street sounds. Is this type of microphone known as an omnidirectional microphone also?

It seems to me that now I may know the type of microphone I need, I can forget all about other types of mics.

It also sounds to me that, to record a five piece accustic band, at my local pubwho are normall about 15 ft away covering an area length of about 12 ft is achievable using such a microphone as would be recording bird calls some 25 Ft above my head, to the front, covering a distance of about 30 Ft.

So tomorrow I'll look at the Accessable Youtube and search only for omnidirectional microphones? There will still be hundreds of varying models though.

Need to be very mindful however about what you were saying about moisture, particularry when out early in the morning with a heavy morning duew.


Very best wishes.

Andy.

Very best wishes.

Andy.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Georgina Joyce" <gena@... <mailto:gena@...>>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:08 PM
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Hello Andy,

If you were able to watch a television would you want to stand back and get the whole picture with reasonable detail. Then you want a omnidirectional microphone that you can protect from the weather. As some condenser mics are easily destroyed by moisture. So on that logic you are looking at a dynamic omnidirectional. The quality is dependent upon the size of your wallet.

However, if you want more detailed image then you would get closer to the television and just focus upon a smaller area but at greater death and detail. The Shotguns would record birds in a small group of trees not one bird in a particular tree as others have suggested. The cardioid pattern is like imagining the mic has a funnel on the end of it. So the further from the mic the wider the spread. But never to its sides or back. Thus if you had a noisy road or farm machinery you could place the mic so those sources are behind the mic.

It is fun to try different microphones and see what harvests your fields. If you do use a quiet dynamic microphone you might want to consider using a fethead so that you don’t have to crank up those pre-amps. They are really terrible on the H6.

Regards,

On 12 May 2020, at 18:33, Andy via groups.io <http://groups.io/><meikle.aiden@... <mailto:meikle.aiden@...>> wrote:

Hi all.

Getting more confused as the day goes on.

The Road NT1 is a no-no as I normally listen to sounds in sterio - it's just the way I am. Perhaps the NT1 is a fantastic Podcast microphone, but just about everything that I'm keen on recording requires a degree of width,

I'm totally not interested in recording a single bird, though I can see the attraction if making a collection of birds inone country or area.

Know, for a down chorus I'd be looking for a sterio outdoor microphone with a wide spread.

For example, here is a sample of my own International Dawn Chorus, recorded at my farm on the 3 May, using the Zoom H6 with the clip on right angle microphone.


Can you guess what is wrong with my recording?

https://www.sendspace.com/file/ox1jos

I have now purchased the newer Zoom F8n and wish a XLR sterio Microphone with a very good Dead Cat because my place is about 300 feet above the River Clyde, so is rather windy. - What do they use in Texas???

Hamit suggests that if the Nt1 is not for me, then perhaps I should look at the NT4. So I looked it up in Accessable Youtube .

It's about £600 and is a USB microphone, which I think would make it a good podcasting microphone, for a home studio computer.

So I'm at a bit of a loss at the moment and need to give it a lote more consideration.

Perhaps I can find out what I'm looking for using the link: How to Record Bird Songs and Calls - Nature Recording | Audubon, provided earlier today by Gena.



Very best wishes.

Andy.



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Hello John,

Fare point, as Andrew had done some research and considered that a shotgun might be the solution I thought he was wanting to focus upon one bird or those birds in a small area. As I pointed out the pickup area is shown as a heart shape. The number of channels does not express the polar pattern. If Andrew wants to record a wide stage then that is an omnidirectional microphone he requires. Not a stereo unless it is omnidirectional. Of course, if andrew wants that binaural affect then again it is something else. Thus there are plenty of options for Andy and many choices and it is for him to decide what the end result is that he requires. i.e. What size stage does Andy want?

There is a youtube reviewer of microphones who dances around the microphones so you can hear the extent of the pattern.

Regards,

On 12 May 2020, at 15:43, John Gurd via groups.io <http://groups.io/><j.gurd@... <mailto:j.gurd@...>> wrote:

I had a look at the link. Most bird watchers want to focus-record an individual bird song sometimes out of many background songs. A dawn Chorus is all the birds in the area - not just a single bird. As Hamit suggests a stereo mike might be more likely to do this successfully.

PS: last time I heard Andy was living in rural Scotland, so maybe not a big garden, but a lot of habitat. I know birds are territorial, but they tend to sing from adjoining gardens to, and I'm sure Andy isn't so possessive he only wants the birds singing in just his garden alone. You'll find a dawn chorus is just as big weather heard from a small garden or an estate for that very reason. 😉

John

-----Original Message-----
From: all-audio@groups.io <mailto:all-audio@groups.io> <all-audio@groups.io <mailto:all-audio@groups.io>> On Behalf Of Georgina Joyce
Sent: 12 May 2020 14:41
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Subject: Re: [all-audio] Microphones for Zoom

Hello John,

They don’t cut out sharply it’s usually shown as a heart shape tapering down to the point. Obviously, Andy has done some research and his post caused me to do so as I use a shotgun in the booth. Andy did not want ambient sound. He wanted to record bird song from his garden. Unless he lives in a huge estate it is not going to be that wide of a field. I found that bird watchers use a shotgun mic although this is with a camera. Even professional sound recordist uses a shotgun. See this:

https://www.audubon.org/news/a-beginners-guide-recording-bird-vocalizations

Regards,

On 12 May 2020, at 14:20, John Gurd via groups.io <http://groups.io/><j.gurd@... <mailto:j.gurd@...>> wrote:

From what I've read a shot-gun mike is so directional that even being off-target a little will result in poor quality sound. I doubt it would be the best for ambient recordings.

John


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 11 May 2020 14:16
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Hello Andy,

It is down to you and how much you want to spend. I follow the Booth Junky who uses a shotgun microphone a lot. He uses the Sennheiser MKH-416. I haven’t been able to afford one of those but I do have the MKH-166 which I purchased used from eBay. I absolutely love it and is my mic of choice. I think that would really do the job.

Regards,

On 11 May 2020, at 13:25, Andy via groups.io <http://groups.io/><meikle.aiden@... <mailto:meikle.aiden@...>> wrote:

Hi all.

I've got both the Zoom H6 and the F8n, but the only microphones I have are the 2 clip on ones that I origionally got with the H6.

I'm wanting to record the Dawn Chorus in my garden but don't have a clue as to which microphone , or best type, to buy and where to buy it.

I think I need a directional Shot-gun microphone with a large Dead-Cat windscreen, and also about 3 meters of cable with the appropriate XLR plugs.

Can anyone please give me some advice.

Also, My Zoom H6 is playing up. I think I've changed an inportant option within the menues. I tried recording bird calls and the recording was extremely poor. Is there perhaps a function within the H6 that Re-sets the device back to factory settings.

I hope you are all okay and enjoying this period of noise pelution silence to get very nice recordings. If so I'd love to here some samples.

Very best wishes and please take care of yourselves.

Andy Logue from Scotland.

Gena

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