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Wildlife and Nature Recording Wildlife recording often pushes recording equipment and science to its limits. The recordist needs to work often with high gain, maximum recording level, with minimum noise contributed by the equipment. Unless you have your own porter it also helps if the equipment is light and compact. The FEL MicBooster and 3.5 Series preamps can both help in these situations. They both work by amplifying the microphone signal by a relatively small amount (20-40 dB depending on model) before feeding the signal into the microphone input of the recorder. The amplification is very low noise and high quality, you can think of it as just increasing the signal level out of the microphone. We call it Front End Lift and we thought it was so good, we named the business after it. There are two specific benefits from this:
The FEL 3.5 Series preamps are designed to work with portable domestic recorders, normally Minidisc or DAT, sometimes cassette or video recorders, they are tiny, light use no batteries and have no switches or controls on them. The preamps all have a stereo 3.5mm mini jack plug to go into the mic socket of the recorder. The FEL MicBoosters are designed for use with professional recorders which have XLR inputs and also phantom power. There is lots of information on the web about nature and wildlife recording, some of the better sources are below: How to Get Started in NATURE RECORDING by John Neville The Wildlife Sound Recording Society is based in the UK and is a great source of information and support. | |||||