Well, I might be a little different than most.
Last year I recorded in Shoulder deep water, waist deep snow, thigh
deep mud, and ankle deep "stuff".
I also recorded in a capton's chair, from warm sands, while snoring
from the back of a van to leaned up against a tree dozing. I
recorded with a beer, a cup of coffee, a coke, and a few others.
Last year I recorded with the most portable recorders in a shirt
pocket to arrays it takes hours and hundreds of feet of cable to set
up. I worked the best of equipment and some of the not so best.
Last year I was confronted by the police,by theives, by a mental para
in a wheelchair, by naked teenagers, by drunks, and by people just
wondering what the hell that is.
Last year for the third year in a row I was laid up with disease and
spent time with clinics for things that find you in the field and you
never even knew it.
Last year I was helped by the most professional, the best amateurs,
and the new just trying stuff new to them.
It doesn't matter how you record nature just find a way to do it and
go. In this part of the world no one looks sideways when you go
fishing with a $35,000 bass boat and you didn't make that over the
last year. Hand em mic and they think you spent the world on nothin.
Last year I recorded a bunch of hours, over a bunch of miles, earned
nothing at it, and had the time of my life. Hope this year is as
good.
Rich
--- In Walter Knapp <>
wrote:
> From: "thorley_tom" <>
>
>
> > Once again I would urge people to consider buying a pre-amp /
mixer with
> > onboard A/D (Sony DMX PO-1(digital throughout after the initial
> > preamplification) / Kamesan(Has an A/D output board)) conversion
and
> > twinning it with one of the latest consumer digital recorders for
excellent=3D
> >=20
> > quality results.
> >
> > All the Best,
> > Tom
>
>
> Take your recording setup in your hands, all of it, all set up to
record
> anytime something calls you want to record. Now walk at least a
mile
> cross country through a mixture of brush, forest, ravines, swamps
etc.
> Preferably through some rain, drizzle, fog and so on. Now record,
though
> you should have also been recording on the way there. If your setup
> cannot be used that way it falls way low in my choices for nature
> recording. We should be discussing portable gear, and that sort of
test
> is what I mean by portable.
>
> Your second test should be going to one of those tropical stations
> without power and recording for a week or two if you are really
hard core.
>
> Any that pass those tests you sort through for the sound quality
you
> like. There is lots of studio gear that will beat what's left, but
it
> won't beat what's left out there where nature recording is done.
>
> Nor is nature recording in a studio, so sound quality that matters
is
> what you get while nature recording. Invariably this will be far
more a
> function of the site than the gear. And your use of the gear.
>
> Walt
>
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