Yet another mic test for my project! Only this time, it’s the cheaper shotgun (an Azden SGM-X) mic… It’s as good nats-wise (natural sound) as the Audio-Technica, and I don’t need a mixer to drive it! The only disadvantage is that the batteries “die in 100 hours” - a claim which I’ve found not to only be false, but to be much more useful than that (the last time I changed batteries in 2006 was before the big Raccoon taping and I’ve been using those same batteries some 4 months, many 24 hour long days with the mic constantly on, and going since then!) But enough about that, the mic itself is a very welcome change to the project! Now I can get sounds of the animals themselves much clearer instead of the roaring of the incessant traffic around here, sniffing, digging, tearing, whatever — now I can hear them and not an on-camera mic! Much better…

 

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