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Re: Recording owls with a dish.

Subject: Re: Recording owls with a dish.
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:00:52 -0500
Barb Beck wrote:
> Dumb question? Does your setup have two on switches - one forward and one
> back.  One of them (I cannot remember which right now) puts in a low
> filter!!
>
> I have recorded lots of owls with a dish.  It was with my big old Roche
> before I got the Telinga but the dish really helped.  It had no trouble
> picking up the low frequencies as a freight train rolled through a rocky
> canyon in the Rockies (did so for 45 minutes).  We could no longer hear t=
he
> train but it came in loud and clear through the earphones and on the
> recordings.

Unfortunately all too true. It would be nice if a parabolic did have
this sharp cutoff folks talk about sometimes. My telinga sucks in any
low rumbles from way far away. Though it is directional, so if I'm lucky
what I want is a different direction.

My Telinga, switch toward the dish puts in the filter, back is straight,
no low cut filter. Depending on the Owl, they may come through either
way, but definitely louder on the lower ones if the filter is off.
Somehow I remember the cutoff being 175Hz, but I could be wrong on that.

Walt




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