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Re: How parabolas do work.

Subject: Re: How parabolas do work.
From: Marty Michener <>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:53:45 -0500
At 11:48 AM 2/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey Gang:
>
>One more suggestion concerning the stereo parabolic mp3 file I've posted  =
at
>www.naturesound.com/plover.mp3
>
>If you can open the stereo file into a sound editing program, then listen =
to
>it first in stereo using headphones, paying special attention to when the
>two plovers call at the same time. Then convert the file to monaural and
>listen again. You'll be amazed at the difference. The "pleasure coefficien=
t"
>drops enormously. Furthermore, you will not be able to clearly distinguish
>the two plovers when they call together.
>
>I'm a total convert to using stereo parabolic recording, based entirely on
>the pleasing recordings I've obtained. Arguments pale in comparison to the
>nice results I've obtained. Stereo parabolic recordings are a pleasure to
>listen to back in the studio. They provide a whole new aesthetic dimension
>to using a parabola.
>
>Lang

Now there we all seem to agree!  This was the point I also made several
times to LNS Cornell over the last two decades.

All the sounds I have posted of "dawn chorus" in Jamaica, St. Lucia and
Panama are stereo - done not with a parabola but with my 30=B0 angled,
crossed ME-67s.  Note: These sounds are mix-pasted from several recordings,=

so as to sound like more birds per minute in the short 25 seconds; but the=

source recordings were all stereo, and were mixed as stereo.

Thanks, Lang.

my best regards,

Marty Michener
MIST Software Associates PO Box 269, Hollis, NH 03049

EnjoyBirds.com  - Software that migrates with you.    http://www.EnjoyBirds=
.com



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