Sounds wonderful, Lang
You wrote:
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> The device is absolutely amazing in the field. Utilizing a binaural heads=
et
> fitted with full range condensor mikes, ...
>From a quick perusal of the information sheet on your net site, I don't
think you've answered this:
Could a switch be inserted between the mics and your electronics to enable
the mics to feed the signal to a recorder. Or better still, split the
signal so us elderly guys can hear your processed signal and at the same
time record it at its' natural frequency, assuming the recorder is capable
of doing so.
Syd Curtis in Australia
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:23:24 2005
Message: 8
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:58:00 -0500
From: Marty Michener <>
Subject: Re: Crossed shotgun stereo rig
At 11:03 AM 3/1/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>The one question I have is how did you determine the angle? Just trying
>it or another of your arcane formulas? I've been thinking it's probably
>what I will do with my two MKH-816's. Though the thing that's slowing me
>down there is figuring out how I'm going to do a full zepplin style
>windscreen, which also involves the suspension. Foam covers definitely
>don't cut it with the MKH-816's, but a zepplin does work, I have a old
>mono one that fits one of them.
>
>Walt
>
Thanks for the response, Walt.
RE My Outage: I got a little antsy because, in seven years of net
communications, this is the first time I have ever had things go awry at my=
end. Postmort: On Tue early AM, Feb 25, my ISP "MV" replaced their pop
mail software. They expected to be up and running by dawn, but it took
until Friday night to get it working. Several "hard bounces" went out on
the 25th "No such mail box." and Yahoo took two days to terminate me, with=
some naturerecordists post messages still getting to me through the 27th,
but missing everything from Friday. Following their instructions today it=
only took half an hour to reinstate my account, once mv's act was together,=
and I must say recovery of status was almost painless once I had email agai=
n.
Simultaneously on Friday, Microsoft (bCentral) completely lost their
servers, due to a hardware failure, and my enjoybirds web site became
non-functional for most of Friday. From here, this utter coincidence
looked like the net itself might be tumbling. Just coincidence.
Regarding the mic angle - I just tried and tried it. It is likely that
better ears like yours will want the two mics more nearly parallel, at
lower angle, but I need help finding birds in the trees because my naked
ears don't do it well any more, so have the angle toward the wide
side. The great thing about this rig is how quickly and cheaply you can
build several to try. You get some leeway within the channels. I
neglected to say each channel is bolted with two two inch 6-23 screws
through the entire thickness of the styrofoam, with big washers on the
bottom. I was going to glue them in the grooves, but realized you want to=
be able to replace rubber bands as they need it, so wen with the screws,
where I can loosen and tighten to put in new rubber bands.
You can always hold the mics temporarily pretty well with duct tape until
you get an angle from which you like the sounds. With my rig I really do
make two-channel recordings all the time, but I do not consider it strictly=
living-room stereo. It is more of a bird-direction-finding rig for
centering on a sound quickly, then getting the best recording with one or
with the other mic.
In the bosque tropical, I have often seen a bird and heard a bird and
thought the one was causing the other, but then found I was wrong. I will=
often use the two mics to confirm this situation for posterity - point one=
best at the sound, and the other toward if not at the quiet but visible
bird, verbally announcing this into the recording. This is handy later
in clarifying what was what at home.
It is ironic that the mv outage caused me to I miss ALL the posts about
Lang's invention - just what I probably most need! ;^)
Congratulations Lang! When I am recording with the ME-67s I find on later=
looking at the spectrum that without the mics, my ears miss virtually all
of the twitter that use to alert me to the presence of perhaps 80% of the
passing passerines, i.e. everything above 5 - 6 kHz, and much is lost from=
3 to 4 kHz. In my case, I believe my hearing loss was associated with
excessive aspirin usage in the 1970's when I tried too hard to be a
distance runner, and sometimes took 6 to 12 aspirin per day. I have
mentioned this before, but let me cut to the chase: As a rule, when you
HEAR aspirin ringing in your ears, you are likely permanently loosing your=
hearing, so make no mistake.
Funny how addicted you get to this group - - -
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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