I live very close to some woods, and birds/cicadas are VERY active around here! In fact, my neighbor across the street killed a 4'+ Copperhead snake last week, because his back yards goes into the woods! If I have time to setup this morning, I'll do so with my MK41>PFA>70d and mk4>VMS02IB>70d setups and post a sample, so you can hear the 70d preamps compared to the VMS02IB preamps
I would certainly be interested in hearing this :-)
Cheers,
Graham
OK, just did some super quiet recording of the birds and nature around 6:30am this morning[6.19.2016]! These are the RAW untouched files, just FLAC'd@Level 8 with TLH! I ran the mk41s with all four gain modes[LOW/MID/HIGH/HIGH+PLUS] of the DR70D, just so yinz could all hear the internal preamps with some quiet mics
Both setups were in Rycote INV6-HG Shocks, with Movo WS80 screens on! The mk41s were ran in DINa, and the mk4s ran ORTF! Tascam 70D run with v1.13 FW!
Stereo Files:
1S12 are mk41>PFA>70d preamps on LOW Gain@MAX[5 o'clock], 24/96 BWAVs, MIC IN/Phantom ON
1S34 are mk4>VMS02IB>70d and on LOW Gain@MAX[5 o'clock], 24/96 BWAVs, LINE IN
2S12 are mk41>PFA>70d preamps on MID Gain@HALF[12 o'clock], 24/96 BWAVs, MIC IN/Phantom ON
2S34 are mk4>VMS02IB>70d and on LOW Gain@MAX[5 o'clock], 24/96 BWAVs, LINE IN
3S12 are mk41>PFA>70d preamps on HIGH Gain@HALF[12 o'clock], 24/96 BWAVs, MIC IN/Phantom ON
3S34 are mk4>VMS02IB>70d and on LOW Gain@MAX[5 o'clock], 24/96 BWAVs, LINE IN
5S12 are mk41>PFA>70d preamps on HIGH+[PLUS] Gain@[9-10 o'clock], 24/96 BWAVs, MIC IN/Phantom ON
5S34 are mk4>VMS02IB>70d and on LOW Gain@MAX[5 o'clock], 24/96 BWAVs, LINE IN
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cg27iq66upn17/Tascam_DR-70D_%26_Schoeps_VMS02IB_Preamp_COMP!_Birds_%26_Nature_Samples_%5BSchoeps_mk4_%26_mk41%5DEDIT: In a few hours, I'm visiting relatives down the road, and they live on a busy street! I'm going to run the newer v1.14 FW to try out and do some more samples of some louder noises like traffic passing by, which is only about 20'-30' from my Gram's front porch, so it should be a good contrast to the birds and nature stuff I recorded earlier and posted above! Can you tell I haven't taped a show in 4 months lol
But I really want to try out the fw v1.14 before I run it live for Phish in 3 days! Might just keep running the v1.13 until I can get back from Phish/Minnesota and test out the v1.14 FW really good before using it "live"