Good Buy On A Z Mic, for the Canucks maybe for others too Options

[speculatrix]

Well, here is one made by Olympus, but you may very well be right about it just creating two channels.  If it it didn't, the left and right are so close together that I doubt there would be much of a panning effect...not toomention the steep $49 price tag.

no, they're genuinely stereo mics, with directional pickup. to exhaust my technical knowledge, stereo strictly means "solid", and in theory the mics have to be at an equivalent point to the playback speakers to get accurate stereo presentation, so not ideal, but a lot better than mono.

if you use a dummy head and put the microphones where the ears are, it's called binaural, and playback is of course ideal for headphones.

yamaha and others have some neat tricks using DSPs to transform stereo sound into binaural using "head related transformation functions".

--edit - oops, fixed

[speculatrix]

p.s. until recently most computers only have mono microphone input but stereo aux/line-in. I think the latest Intel specification with high resolution sound calls for stereo microphones, but the zaurus is mono. I don't know if there's any way to do stereo sound input on the Z except by adding some sort of analogue/digital converter adaptor in the CF slot?

[scheck.r]

If you are in France, here is another Mic:
http://www.pearl.fr/article-PE5530-MICROPHONE.html
I tried it under pdaxrom beta3 using KHdRecord. It works great as long as you are very close to the Mic. You can't beat the price: 4,90eur(mic) + 4,90eur(shipping).[attachment=3734:attachment][attachment=3734:attachment]

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[Overgauss]

Would any of these be good for a student to record classroom lectures with?

[harvell]

I've been using this one to record lectures and meetings.

http://conics.net/catalog/product_info.php...0043044d7ce70e1

[Overgauss]

I've been using this one to record lectures and meetings. 

http://conics.net/catalog/product_info.php...0043044d7ce70e1

Cool thanks. I started to get excited. Read the specs, got more excited. Then I realised it costs $41. So I thought "well, you've gotta pay to play." Then I remembered to add shipping, oh wait it's $41 + $13.66 shipping. I may wait on that abit. /khan!

[harvell]

I've been using this one to record lectures and meetings. 

http://conics.net/catalog/product_info.php...0043044d7ce70e1

Cool thanks. I started to get excited. Read the specs, got more excited. Then I realised it costs $41. So I thought "well, you've gotta pay to play." Then I remembered to add shipping, oh wait it's $41 + $13.66 shipping. I may wait on that abit. /khan!

Yeah it could get up there in price. I guess it's easier when someone buys it for you as a present

[Antikx]

Okay, I went down to The Source by Circuit City this afternoon.  And saw this mic on the shelf.  I had my 3200 with me so, I tried it with the Voice Recorder software in Cacko.  It works!  The specs are quite close to the Conics one but this one is only $19.99CAN.  That's a great price to add another useful feature to your Zaurus.

I picked one up, thanks for the tip!
I keep forgetting to use it in meetings though.

[HoloVector]

Okay, I went down to The Source by Circuit City this afternoon.  And saw this mic on the shelf.  I had my 3200 with me so, I tried it with the Voice Recorder software in Cacko.  It works!  The specs are quite close to the Conics one but this one is only $19.99CAN.  That's a great price to add another useful feature to your Zaurus.

I picked one up, thanks for the tip!
I keep forgetting to use it in meetings though.

Have you tried it with krecord yet? I've only used it in the Voicerec app in Cacko

[harvell]

I just tried Khrecord in a seminar yesterday night. It worked well with .wav files and even .ogg. I just wish I could bring up the gain a bit more. I had it to 100 and oss mixer to 100. But it seems like the Sharp Record app worked better. I just reloaded my 5500 with the Sharp Rom and test it out again and create two files one with KhdRecord and the other with the Sharp voice app. I'll try to post them on the Tyrannozaurus blog.

[Antikx]

Have you tried it with krecord yet?  I've only used it in the Voicerec app in Cacko

Ya. Just horsing around, but ya. it seems to work well.
Looking forward to your blog post harvell.