Is the Robin posted for listening somewhere?
Tony Baylis
--- Klas Strandberg <> wrote:
> In 1982 I made an experiment:
>
> I recorded a Redwing in AB stereo:
> In the background you could easily hear traffic
> sounds from the city and
> airplanes from the airport.
>
> When people were presented the recording in stereo,
> with headphones, they
> all looked happy, smiling, saying things like "it is
> so natural, how can you
> do this?"
> Nobody commented the traffic sounds.
>
> When presented the recording in mono (one of the
> omnis) people didn't look
> as happy, no smile, but they said things like "it is
> very good quality".
>
> When the recording was low frequency filtered, they
> all said things like "it
> is a pity that one can hear so much traffic noise.
>
> So, in mono, when filtered, people took more notice
> of the traffic. I
> concluded that mono doesn't trigger the "brain
> filters" good enough,
> especially not when you have manipulated the mono
> sound.
>
> In 1995, I made a stereo recording (Telinga PRO5 +
> stere DATmic) of a Robin
> sitting on a car antenna at Trafalgar Square, in the
> middle of London
> afternoon traffic.
> That is not a recording of a Robin, and should not
> be judged as a "very
> noisy recording of a Robin." It is a recording of "a
> Robin at Trafalgar
> Square traffic jam," and the traffic sounds are not
> noise, but part of the
> recording.
>
> Klas.
>
>
>
> At 00:57 2003-10-22 -0000, you 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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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!!
> >
> >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
> >
> >Having a morning off, at home in Alice Springs,
> Northern Territory,
> >Australia
> >
> >
> >
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