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 d=
ay
>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 peopl=
e
>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
Moderator
Nature Recordists e-mail group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists
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