Yes Walt, and the cassette tape, moving as slow as it does, cannot
reproduce the rapid "on-off" of the cricket sounds with and semblance of
reality. Chipping sparrows are another creature where the cassette has
a hard time reproducing what the input actually was.
And then there is the problem of tape hiss in cassettes...
Wil
-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Knapp
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 6:41 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] More on MKH and a little story
abt.Nagras
Doug Von Gausig wrote:
>
> At 11:38 AM 7/4/2002, Wil Hershberger wrote:
> >If you really want to test the difference between MD and cassette try
> >recording a cricket! You will see a MARKED difference in fidelity of
> >the two recording media.
>
> How so, Wil? I just took a look at the field cricket from your CD and
> compared it to some of my MD recordings of that species. I couldn't
see or
> hear anything I'd call a marked difference, but maybe I'm not looking
at
> the same things. Also I know that your ear is finely-tuned to insect
calls,
> and mine is not .
I think he was talking Cassette tape vs MD. Where the high end
differences are pretty big as cassette cannot go near as high as MD.
Some of the commonly used cassette recorders for nature recording could
barely make 10 khz, and that only with just the right kind of new tape.
Your point about CD vs MD is the same one we have discussed and tested.
Telling MD from CD is very tough to impossible by ear, and can even be
hard by sonogram.
Walt
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