About Myself
Welcome to my new Homepage!
Volker Widmann
My name is Volker Widmann.
I live in Konstanz in the south of Germany directly at Lake Constance.
One of my main interests is Nature Sound Recording.
Over the last few years I have made quite some recordings both here in my native Germany, especially in the Lake Constance area (which includes Switzerland and Austria) and during my vacations mainly in the US, particularily in California and Florida.
My gear includes an Edirol R-4 and an Edirol R-44 as well as an iRiver H140, my main recorder being the R-44 at the moment.
For microphones I mainly use a mid-side stereo system which includes a Sennheiser MKH80 as the side and a Sennheiser MKH20 or a Sennheiser MKH40 as the mid microphone. Currently I use the MKH80/20 combination.
For under water recordings I use a pair of Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR.
I also own an Audio Technica AT3032 stereo pair as well as two Technica AT3031. Additionally I have a pair of AKG 480 with CK 62 omni capsules which I do not use for Nature Recording any more as they don’t work well in humid environments.
Finally I have some Soundman OKM in the Classic, A/V and Rock version, that I used in combination with Minidisc and DAT recorders at the very beginning of my nature recording days. They are now off duty.
For preamps I use a Sounddevices MP-2 and most recently a LAKE PEOPLE C360 (which I very much recommend).
I decided to keep this blog in English as most people that I interact with are from the US (Germany being a bit of a Nature Recording wasteland).
In case anyone wishes to contact me, you can do this via e-mail, my address being:
v o l w i d at g m x . d e (without any blanks and with an at-sign, of course)
So I am awaiting your comments
Volker Widmann