1. Building the Mics was very fun, and a good experience. The soldering took precision so when my microphone turned out to work well I was very proud of myself. The range and quality of the microphones were very high quality. My ideal sound recording setup would be similar microphones to those that we made and custom built wind protectors, not made of felt, and a completely digital recorder, with a hard drive instead of a mini disc, it could also be small and slide right into the pocket of my tight jeans. I’m using a pair of Bose sound canceling headphones so I’m set with those.
2. The mini disc worked well, I did forget to switch it to manual sometimes. My ideal recorder would stay in the setting that I turned it off with. All the sound would be recorded onto an irremovable hard drive.
3. I don’t like sonic stage, because of its non-Mac compatibility. Audacity is a useful program I just need to familiarize myself with it more. Then I will be able to utilize to its full extent.