It is also worth noting that the page was last updated on October 28,
1998!!!
As well as being rubbish - it is outdated rubbish.
Best Wishes,
Chris.
www.chrisowens.co.uk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Von Gausig
> Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: nature Recordists
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] "Dissing" MiniDisc
>
>
> I received the following request today from a novice
> recordist - it's an
> illustration of how Cornell continues to stifle (in my mind) nature
> recording rather than stimulate it:
>
> >Last Oct. i spend all my time in the field on nature walks. Almost
> >every day i would hear a strange vocolization, and than a whitetail
> >deer would come waking out. I would like to get this
> recorded, but have
> >never recorded before, and the more i read the more i get
> confused. I
> >am thinking on getting a MArantz PMD-221 or 222 or a Mini Disk
> >recorder. I would like to play it back and see how they react. The
> >Macaulay Library Of Natural sounds and the Florida State
> Bioacoustics
> >Archives say not to use Mini Disk recorders because of
> distortion. But
> >on other nature sites people swear by them. Could you help me decide.
>
> The Florida reference is to Dave Mellinger's page at
> http://asa.aip.org/ani_bioac/ABminidisc.html , entitled "The Evils of
> MiniDisc". He says, in part "It's a shame to waste that effort with
> recording technology that definitely ruins the sound for
> science, probably
> harms it for playback, and possibly distorts it for plain old
> listening
> enjoyment." What BS.
>
> Doug
>
>
> Doug Von Gausig
> Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
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