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Re: [AUDITORY] Continuous room recordings & microphone



My recent long term remote recording work has been done with commercial digital recorders and lavalier microphones, powered with a USB lithium battery pack. The recorder and battery are placed in nested zip loc bags, with the microphone cord routed through a gap or a hole taped closed.  For indoor use that packaging probably won’t be necessary. 😊

Three examples are:
Zoom F1 field recorder

Tascam DR-10L recorder
Zoom H1n recorder (has a pair of built-in microphones, or can accept a microphone cable)


Mine are a few years old, so there may be equivalent or better models available.  Prices are under 200 USD.

 

Typical use is a 32GB flash capacity, and so the recording duration depends upon your required sampling rate, resolution, and whether you can use perceptual audio coding.

 

Good luck!

Rob

 

 

From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Picinali, Lorenzo
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 2:59 AM
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Subject: Re: Continuous room recordings & microphone

 

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Hi Sam,

 

you could use our autonomous recorder, based on RaspberryPI. Here you can find all the details and code, together with a paper where we run some evaluations in the field.

 

 

Of course in your case you can power it using the mains rather than having to use solar panels, and you don't need to stream them through the network but can keep them in a large SD card. By default they'll be segmented in 1-hour chunks, but you can change that in the code quite easily.

We have used this with the Rode SmartLavPlus mic, which is omni and works rather well, and is not too expensive. But you can of course also use other microphones with ¼ jack connector and max 5v power requirements. If you need more (e.g. 48v phantom power) then you'll need to get a dedicated audio interface for the RaspberryPI...there are a few USB ones with XLR connectors and phantom power.

 

I hope this helps!

 

best
Lorenzo

 


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From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Norman-Haignere, Samuel V <Samuel_Norman-haignere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 18 October 2022 19:21
To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AUDITORY] Continuous room recordings & microphone

 

I’m interested in making continuous recordings of the sound in a room for a week at time. I’m wondering if anyone on this list has a suggestion for:

 

  1. Thoughts on a good microphone for making omni-directional room recordings.

 

  1. Any software or hardware that I could buy that would facilitate making long multi-day recordings and chopping them up into manageable files. I could do this using a for loop in MATLAB or Python, but am wondering if there are any alternatives that might be simpler / more robust (e.g. not prone to MATLAB or Python crashing).

 

Thanks in advance!

 

My best,

Sam