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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fmhill" data-source="post: 1841293" data-attributes="member: 86560">James,To follow up on my experience with microphones and the LS-11 recorder, this past Thursday the Sennheiser ME66/K6 microphone arrived and Friday, the US Mail delivered the box from Sweetwater.com with the HosaTech XVM-105F cable.Its a marriage made in heaven. Plug and play! (or record that is).By 2:30 in the afternoon I was wandering about the treefarm hand holding the microphone in one hand and the recorder in the other.  For a first test it was a huge success even without the windscreen and shock mount which are still in the hands of UPS to be delivered next week.Along the back edge of the treefarm, in the woods beyond I could hear an Oriole, he was about 100 feet back in the tall oak trees, I couldn't see him and pointed the ME66 microphone in his general direction and recorded one of his bursts of song.At that point I returned home and downloaded the short recording and its full of the Oriole's audio, a very satisfactory first test.Prior to this test, I've been using a Sennheiser MKE 300 small shotgun mic with a monaural cord and plug made for video cameras. The difference is like night and day, there is no comparison in amount of sound the ME 66/K6 puts out compared to the MKE 300 which is a real surprise to me. The MKE 300 is specked at 16mv/Pa sensitivity (same as the NTG-2) and the ME 66 is specked at 50mv/Pa and man, what a difference in the field.Another key difference noticed right off, the HosaTech XVM-105F cable, XLR pin 2 being wired to both tip and ring of the 1/8" plug so the ME 66/K6 output is on both channels of the LS-11 which makes a huge improvement to my ear...And sensitivity to sounds in the distance, the MKE 300 is barely able to record a bird two hundred feet distant, its right at the noise floor, you can barely hear it when played back.  Yet the same bird with the ME66/K6 is about half scale on the record bargraph.So far, I am very pleased with how this is turning out... Mitch & Shadow<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> ...</blockquote>

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