I prefer not to walk in the woods at night with my parabolic and that
seems to be when I enter for deer. It is a pain. For deer and for
stalking I pickup my shotgun mic. But the types of sounds you are
after you may prefer a omni. Keep in mind your minidisc recording in
mono is 160 mins. You can locate the prime location setup in a tree
and leave. That likely will get you better results.
A salad bowl can be used to achieve a 45 degree viewing angle but is
not a parabolic. Consider it more like a shield for back noise if
you want to use one.
The Telinga dish and other good parabolics have to have their mold
made from a computer manufactured model. My dish seems to have a 5
degree viewing angle and maybe Klas will tell us exactly what his is
designed as, but it seems to be a bit more friendly and around 15
degrees.
Keep in mind what you lack in equipment right now you can make up for
with the experience you have from spending time in the field. Since
I've been recording my stalking and tracking skills have improved
many fold.
Rich Peet
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> Dear Walter
> I am very delighted with your pictures of the homemade
> parabolic mic you made, and am intending to try to build one myself
> to use in the woods next month. I have a few more questions on this
> mic if you would not mind answering them. My first question will
> probably sound very off the wall to you, but i was wondering if
using
> a large plastic salad bowl or similar desighn for a reflector? I
was
> also wondering what kind of foam you were refering to when you
> metioned using it in your mic, and also would you fill in the whole
> handle and T with this, besides in the cap with the mic, and just
> leave the peice of PVC with the cutout holes empty of this foam?
How
> do you go about finding the focus point of the reflector to be?
Should
> i cement all the caps , including the mic cap? Also were the holes
> already inthe pvc pipe or did you cut them yourself, if so what did
> you use to do this so neatly? Would the part with the holes in it
be
> cemented to the T, or another way? And lastly, how would the mic be
> mounted in the cap with foam?
> Thanking you greatly:
> John E Parks..
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