My field recording system
You might ask, “How do you make your field recordings?” Then again, you probably don’t care.
I use an iRiver IFP-799 1 gigabyte flash-memory MP3 player that can do direct encoding to MP3. It has an input which can be switched to either microphone or line-in input voltage.
I connect a handmade Visivox Hammerhead to the recorder to make nice quality stereo recordings.
A nice thing about this configuration is that I can record for many hours at a high bitrate and hardly lose a tick on the battery meter.
Even without the stereo microphone, the iRiver itself has a sensitive microphone built in, though I notice a lot of handling noise when trying to record in this manner.
