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Re: a preamp survey

Subject: Re: a preamp survey
From: "thorley_tom" <>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:18:36 -0000
Hi Rich,

--- In  "Rich Peet" <> 
wrote:
> 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

Me too, and I wish you and everyone the best of all that is good this year too. 
It is precisely the endless variety of circumstance and nature that makes 
wildlife recording so enjoyable. 




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