Hello.
Im newbie but have a long dream to make field recordings, but I was shure that portable setup with ~middle quality will be very expensive.
Few days ago I found some amazing binaural recordings and wanted to found how much equipment can cost. It was surprising to me that middle quality binaural mics are not so expensive and overall equipment too.
So I want to buy binaural microphone for about 100-190$. and other equipment: Recorder(+maybe ? Preamp+Battery module ?) for about 300$ so whole budget is 480$ max.
I found many different models of the binaural microphones on the market - Roland, SoundProfessionals, ChurchAudio, AudioReality, CoreSound.
The most part of this binaurals are for use with clips, so they are not IN ears, they outside ears. It is not good for me, because I dont want other people look at me, and they are not true binaurals.
What microphone for binaural records is better? I found only 3 "in-ear" models:
Roland CS-10EM (~110$)
SoundProfessionals MS-TFB-2 (150$)
SoundMan OKM II (~180$)
What microphone is better? I want to record not loud ambience, and I dont have too much money to buy big-cost recorder (maximum 300$) so I think that microphone must have smallest sound to noise ratio and biggest sensitivity, because my recorder will be not so good.
Another question is maybe it will be more effective to buy some PreAmp + low-cost recorder? instead of middle cost recorder? but preamps are so expensive (ChurchAudio will cost ~150$ !). So on 300$ budget I can buy PreAmp 150$ and recorder for 150$ ? can this be better than 300$ Recorder?
any recommendations? please