Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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John Williamson wrote:
Snag with a lot of these sort of things is you still need the mic in a
half decent place for a good recording. Regardless of how it records.

It also makes life a *lot* easier if you record in stereo, as then you
can physically place the voices, and they're easier to understand over
any background noise.

Bit of a mixed blessing as stereo also picks up more background noise,
over a directional mono mic.

The cocktail party effect lets me listen through quite bad background
noise, others may not be able to.

Sony used to sell a stereo tieclip microphone which worked with their
minidisc recorders, and was quite unobtrusive in use.

That's fine if all you're recording is yourself - but not much use for a
discussion.

I found it quite useful if it was mounted on the aternative desk stand.
Still very unobtrusive, in black,and about half the size of an AAA cell.
I wish I still had it.

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Tciao for Now!

John.