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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fmhill" data-source="post: 1834411" data-attributes="member: 86560">jg,Seeing that you've not received a reply, let me see if I can help.  I'm new at nature sound recording, I'm just getting started myself however I have a lifetime career behind me in underwater accoustics as an equipment designer to lean on for sound equipment experience.  I say that first to caution you that what I say is not to be taken as from someone with a lot of experience with these new microphones and little digital recorders as used for nature sound recording today.  In the process of deciding what I was going to use, I received what I consider to be some very good advise and answers to my questions.  This information is what I intend to share with you...   First, a web site link that I found to be right on target about hooking up shotgun microphones to the type of digital recorder we are using. In my case its the Olympus LS-11 however the basic concept is not much different than the Sony PCM-M10 which was my other choice.<a href="http://www.avisoft.com/tutorial_mic_recorder_connection.htm" target="_blank">http://www.avisoft.com/tutorial_mic_recorder_connection.htm</a>I also looked at the AT shotgun microphones, in particular the AT-897 however I heard from several people that the AT-897 has low sensitivity and instead I have decided to go with the Sennheiser ME66 / K6 shotgun microphone which I'm now waiting to arrive. Here is a quote from Paul Jacobson sent to me on another forum:"The LS-10's  lack of XLR input and phantom power limits your choices unless you add a phantom power supply to your kit.  I feel this defeats the point of having a small handheld recorder, and you are best to stick to PIP or a shotgun that will run from an internal AA cell.  Within these constraints the K6/ME66 is your best choice, as it has a winning combination of low noise and high sensitivity.  Alternatives like the AT897 or NTG-1are ok but suffer in comparison with the ME66 due to relatively high self-noise and low sensitivity.  When I first started recording I used an AT897 with a Sony minidisc recorder but if you have the available funds the K6/Me66 is a better choice."(The LS-10 Paul refers to is the prior model Olympus recorder very similar to the LS-11 and the Sony PCM-M10)However for all this I have heard recordings made by others with the AT-897 on older different type recorders that sounded very good. It may well be that there is a poor impedance match between the AT-897 and the new digital recorders but I'm guessing, I've not had a need to explore that...Another person who influenced my thinking about the Sennheiser ME 66 / K6 vs the AT-897 is a person who uses a ME 66/K6 with a Olympus LS-10 and raved about it...  The most important item in this discussion is the link above to microphone connections, take all the rest with a grain of salt... Hope this is a bit of help... Good Luck... Mitch...</blockquote>

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