Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo of recording of oral histories ?

[Steven <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard L. Hess" <ArcLists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> How many people record oral histories in stereo?
> 
> I had an opportunity this past week to spend a day with my father who 
> will be celebrating his 90th birthday the end of the month. My wife 
> and two boys and my dad's wife were all there - six of us.
> 
> As you know, I believe in redundancy in almost everything I do, so I 
> had two mini-disc recorders running through much of it. To keep 
> things simple and totally independent, one MD was fed from an Audio 
> Technica AT-822 mic. The other was fed from a Sennheiser MD-421U mic 
> in mono. I find the AT-822 version to be much more intelligible than 
> the MD-421 due to the spacial imaging as much as anything.
> 
> I could have been more encumbered and used two AKG C-451s or two 
> Sennheiser MKH-416Ts but that would have required an external battery 
> pack and more wires, and I was looking for something very simple.
> 
How did you go from the XLR outputs (I assume the mikes had those)
to the phone-plug or RCA-plug inputs of the recorders...particularly
given the different impedances?

In my case, I have a couple of Shure SM58's...which are, if nothing
else, just about the closest thing to indestructibility in the world
of microphones...

Steven C. Barr