Hi Curt-- I have a project going and I'll enjoy studying your test results closer, later. A couple of quick impressions and questions: The sense of space...
I have one more thing to add to this thread. Now that I know what the Northern Pygmy Owl sounds like, I went back to an earlier recording the group had helped...
On behalf of our field team (Kevin Colver, Martyn Stewart and me) and this project, I want to thank each and every one of you who has so generously supported...
I've put up a sample made at one of our recording sessions with a hired pair of Sennheiser mkh 20s (omnis) and am totally baffled by the poor quality. I'd be...
Thanks for all the suggestions. The particular laptop model I have does not have a stereo 'line-in' connection, and the microphone seems to only be mono...
While this is not technically a natural sound issue, Romilly, it sounds to me like the problem is basically two-fold. First, the MKH 20s are not the best to...
"Romilly Hambling" wrote ... Romilly, Without having the mics at hand for instrumented testing, I can only say that it sounds to me as though the mikes are...
Thanks, Eric. My feeling too. Just plain buggered (that's how we say it over here). Re Bernie's comments, what I didn't say was that sounds picked up from...
Mics commonly used indoors, like the Schoeps and Neumanns, are old standards and deliver wonderful illusion with orchestral instruments. But they don't work...
Here's a little more information about the ZFR100 recorder. I found this on the taperssection.com forum. The quote below is supposed to be from Glenn...
The Sennheiser MKH30/40 combo calibrates nicely to w/in =/-2dB, Dan. On the 722 set the input to -30dB and calibrate a pink noise tone to that level measured...
Doesn't it sound like its designed for body-worn lavaliere mics to make assurance/transcription recording under film/video synchronization situations? If so, a...
... I heard a lot more room and less direct than in the 3032 sample; without knowing that the mics were in exactly the same position and the room was in the...
I've uploaded some 192K MP3s to my downloads area. The mics were mounted in plastic canvas domes covered with long-hair fake fur and mounted on my shoulders....
Dan, Your third recording is the song of the road runner (a descending cooing, not at all like the beep beep we have all come to love) with a Bewick's wren and...
Dan, Sorry I jumped to conclusions without careful attention, it was a Black throated Sparrow, not a Bewick's wren in the background. Kevin Colver ... [This...
Rob Danielson (offline) homed in on the suspicious fact that the mics sounded equally bad and so identified something about the Edirol R4 (or cables, but not...
... The dove-like call in the middle is the mating call of a Greater Roadrunner, Dan. It's a real testament to these mics that you can pull that sound up as...
Bernie, you wrote in response to my asking how you were calibrating rigs, ... I'm not clear from that description what the procedure is; is it this: Play pink...
I saw this article that I thought was interesting. It's unclear to me whether the research would have potential application in Nature Recording (though I tend...
Right you are, Dan. The reason I like that calibration format is because I am anticipating a much wider dynamic range in the field and don't want to have to...
A study just a few years ago at Cambridge U. (UK) spoke of how researchers were able to isolate and record the signatures of herpes viruses. Titled: "Direct...
... ... 45-second clips back to ... Curt, I didn't know if you have this tool. here are the mics in averaged freq / volume response. Only the left channel of...
Bernie, you wrote, ... I think the 200Hz high-pass is the more important part of the bandwidth limitation. ... That's about as close as you can get with...
... I hadn't gotten around to playing with EQ in that way, so I appreciate your observations. That's the kind of feedback I was hoping for. ... Are you talking...
