{"id":1977,"date":"2013-02-13T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T06:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hybridsoundworks.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2015-03-25T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T21:57:04","slug":"portable-recorders-2-binaural-mic-tests-sony-pcm-d50-vs-roland-cs10em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hybridsoundworks.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Portable Recorders 2 – Binaural Mic Tests: Sony PCM-D50 Vs. Roland CS10EM"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read the microphones on a Sony PCM-D50 Portable recorder are not great \u00a0[but better than the microphones in the Marantz PMD-661<\/em> – see blog on THAT!] <\/a>and I was wondering exactly how “not great” they might be. \u00a0Sound Designer Gordon McGladdery [<\/a><\/strong>aka<\/a> A Shell In The Pit]<\/a><\/strong> mentioned something about binaural microphone recordings and I jumped at the chance to do a comparison recording. Plus I thought it would be a good excuse to hang out with Gordon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Binaural-&-Sony\"<\/p>\n

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River Ambience Recordings in North Vancouver<\/h3>\n

We drove around until we found a location near Deep Cove with a large stream, away from busy car traffic. This was a good\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to record\u00a0ambience\u00a0with a lot of detailed\u00a0information to highlight transient response in the test microphones. We recorded at 96KHz\/24bit and you can download the raw files (well not exactly raw – flac) at the bottom of this post.
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Sony Recorder with Internal Mics @ 120 degrees Vs Binaural Mics (no EQ, files have been volume normalized)<\/p>\n

Sony Internal Mic

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