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Re: Brain Filters and the price of MDs

Subject: Re: Brain Filters and the price of MDs
From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:58:21 -0000
--- In  "Greg Winterflood"
<> wrote:
> --- In  Walter Knapp
<>
> wrote:
> > I would love to have a sound filter for my recordings as capable
> as our
> > brains at ignoring unwanted sound. It's not only a revelation how
> much
> > more we start to hear when getting into recording, but also a
bane.
>=20
> At present my field is my backyard, and even inside the house I
hear
> calls all day long.  Since beginning recording my ears are now
> acutely tuned to the activity outside.=20
>
> It's spring here and the trees are full of birdsong.  It's getting
> such that I wish I had a brain filter to block birdcalls.  Every
> time I hear a perfect full length paragraph of song, with all the
> sentences the birds utter separately included in it, I get a
feeling
> of disappointment.  The reason being that I haven't yet managed to
> make the perfect recording of the perfect paragraph!!

I hope that this feeling stays with you. It is a price you must pay
to be able to do this well.

>
> On the subject of 'the perfect recorder' I just had a look at the
> HHb Website in the UK.  The picture of the MDP500 Portadisc has 695
> UKPounds beside it.  This is about $1700 Australian, which would
> seem to compare well to the price of the Sony 'top of the range
> NetMD' which is near $800, in the stores in downtown Alice Springs.
>
> Greg

Who knows why HHb did not include a wave format with their md
recorder and built substandard.  One has to conclude it had nothing
to do with the recordist.

>
> Having a morning off, at home in Alice Springs, Northern Territory,
> Australia

When you get the chance send us a sample of that morning off. I had
mine yesterday chasing the rare.

Rich Peet



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