Ive used the built in mic quite a bit. You get noise artefacts when you turn the gain up, but for just sketching stuff out it’s fine. I also use a pair of Soundman binaural mice with a little line level battery preamp. It is really annoying being unable to capture 3d stuff into the op1. I make my music out of a lot of field recordings and be great if they were more spatial. recorded this while camping last weekend with the built in mic. https://soundcloud.com/thorpeacre/canoe
@formatk, I love that track.
Imho the mic is pretty good, I recorded some of the english translation of the Popol Vuh. Just placed my iPad against the mic, it gave it a really nice lofi effect I was hoping for.
Yeah!!!
I heard that track in the Tracks thread…
I really dig that a lot!
Right up my alley…
formatk…which battery preamp are you using?
Cheers guys! @drio preamp is this baby battery powered thing. It’s matched for the binaural mics. http://www.soundman.de/products/a3-adapter-2/
Sometimes I just capture stuff with my tascam dr05 and just carry a tiny mini jack patch lead and pull stuff into the op1 that way too. Can be more discreet way of recording.
Cool…yeah, for now I’m just gonna line out from my recorder too
thanks!
My mic sounds really low, i’ve also tested IT but it says like -38db.
Is changing the connector board the ONLY way to fix IT?
@Ninthcamomile I have the same problem as you do. I wrecked my board running by running phantom power to it. But I just replaced the board and the db is still low, so it looks like I’ll have to chance the whole motherboard.
If you didn’t hammer it with 48V like @Kites did, @ninthcamomile, you can probably just replace the connector board, or maybe jiggle a toothpick in there to loosen the mechanical switch. Though if it was a problem with the switch it shouldn’t read any value or infinite (pretty sure mine doesn’t show anything close to -38dB and when I crank the gain all I get is a crackle).
same here @krism.