Thanks for all the responses.
I will try and review them all in some time for entry level.
I still refuse to accept a premise that this field of Nature
Recording has to be like Nature Photography and involve tons of money
to enter to get quality results. I think I am well on my way in
doing that.
Entry level knowledge needed is a big problem in this field and this
group has responded in a way that has shown they can overcome some of
the pitfalls. We have not become the pro-audio group that simply
says they can do it with every dime that you got.
What the current sound equivalent of a "point and shoot camera" is
right now is different than what some want for published sound but
there are ways to record well with very limited equipment. Some
places they simply don't ask how you did that. They care about the
quality sound that you got. Some ask and still want the sound when
they know. I still am at a loss to explain a stereo image recorded
using sofa foamrubber hung from a tree.
With the old quality used cassettes and dats currently at very low
prices and 233 mhz laptops being dumped by corporations the options
have never been so low. The microphone may be the exspensive key but
I think I have shown some entry level options that can give very good
results within a teenagers budget.
With an educated person behind someone who wants to record in the
wild there is no reason that this can't be done on a very limited
budget. There also is nothing wrong with commitment comming in steps
and if that involves buying something to be used for a year and
discarded that can be a natural growth.
Thanks all and keep up the ideas and information.
Rich Peet
Now would an array of 5 summed MKH110's on a sheet of plywood into a
old 66 mhz laptop with added capacitors on the preamp be good enough
to record the infrasound entry of meteors this summer? Guess I got
to try to find out.
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:23:16 2005
Message: 2
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:52:46 -0600
From: "Robair, Gino" <>
Subject: RE: DIY hydrophones
Thanks for the comments Walt and Jeremiah.
Jeremiah Moore wrote:
<<I've made 2 DIY hydrophones from a very simple design I invented. I
think others have invented the same: Piezo disc encased in epoxy
resin. I used lavalier mic cable. The sound is not absolutely
delicious however. Probably some impedance issues among other things.>>
That's the part I'm curious about: the impedance match. I'm still wondering
if someone on the list has advice about creating a hydrophone that doesn't
have the air-barrier problem (which you'd get with the mic-in-the-condom
trick).
All comments or suggestions (on or off the list) are welcome.
Best,
ginorobair
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