Mark:
Thanks for the info. I've ordered the AFAB hydrophone. It's being
drop-shipped to a researcher in Washington who is going out to record
Northern Red-legged Frogs this weekend. I just found out that they do most
of their calling underwater, so that's why we're in a rush for this.
I tried the condom technique with my MKH20, but noted poor high frequency
response, which is what I'd expect. I suspect that the AFAB will do much
better in terms of frequency response.
We'll see what happens. He's recording on to a DAT.
Lang
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>> Do you think the AFAB will produce better sound than a Sennheiser MKH
>> 20/condom combo? I imagine that using a condom will drastically change the
>> frequency response, causing significant rolloff at higher frequencies. Is
>> this true?
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> The AFAB has an 1/8" mini trs headphone jack that puts out a bone crushing
> level.
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> I couldn't hazard a quess as to the MKH20/condom sound quality - but condoms
> are cheap. Give a try in the bathtub.
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> I found the condom results pretty poor, myself. But that was using a dynamic
> mic.
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> Maybe if I had used a ribbed condom for greater sensitivity ...
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:22:18 2005
Message: 19
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:43:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Aaron Ximm <>
Subject: Re: Re: homemade hydrophone
> It's too bad sony does not see fit to put out a recorder for us based on
> the 640 meg version of MD. That would be more interesting, same record
> time as this marantz in uncompressed, and a much more viable field disk
> format.
Walt, I couldn't agree more! And if not them, somebody... of course, I
suppose media would be quite expensive and hard to fine for awhile --
unless they opened it up to current levels of compression, in which case I
imagine you'd have a very interested consumer market. With MDLP2 that
would be what, 12 hours of music on a disk?
Oh well...
aaron
http://www.quietamerican.org
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