Re: Shotgun microphone

[Walter Knapp <>]

Martyn Stewart wrote:
> (Note that a lot of the bit about parabolics not reflecting low
> frequencies is flawed understanding of how sound travels through air.
> Even the tiniest dish (or microphone diaphragm) reflects low
> frequencies. If this were not so, then microphones could not pick up
> those frequencies.)
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> I agree, I get better response from my Telinga dish to low frequencies
> than I do from my shotguns
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> Some Notes from the British Library and a recording of a Roughed Grouse
> I recorded.
> http://www.naturesound.org/Examples.htm
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> Martyn Stewart

For those wondering just what frequencies were recorded here's a
sonogram of the first call:
http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/naturerecordists/Martyn.grouse.jpg

Martyn, any idea what distance to the grouse?

Walt




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