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Posted by Mike Rivers on 03/24/06 22:22
Gordon wrote:
> I was told it would pick up sound from 100 feet to 100 yards away but
> it hardly picks up sound from 1 metre away.
They didn't say how loud the sound had to be in order to be picked up
100 feet or 100 yards away. I'll bet it'll pick up a snowmobile at 100
yards. It's a little detail that they left out of the "specifications."
It's not at all uncommon for mic specs to be incomplete.
> If no one has a solution then could could someone suggest a reasonably
> priced microphone for filming.
I know of no $69 shotgun mic that actually works like you expect this
one to. A mic with a parabolic reflector might get close to the
performance that you expect, but they sound pretty awful. The
Sennheiser long shotgun mics that gave that style of mic its name cost
a few thousand bucks and still won't pick up a normal conversation at
100 feet, but they'll pick up that snowmobile with better fidelity than
your DAK.
This is a joke. Return it for a refund and lower your expectations or
raise your budget substantially.
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