Martin,
Your question prompted me to research where I got my bird mike. it's called
a Bird Bug, and it's from Natural-technology Industries;
http://www.natural-technology.com/
I'll have to add that info to my web site.
I've had my bird mike for at least 4 years, maybe 5. It really does not
reject auto sounds and other manmade noise well, but it works well enough
for my purposes.
I have the output from the speaker box that came with the Bird Bug connected
to my computer sound card through an inexpensive Radio Shack mixer. I tried
connecting the mic directly to the mixer, bypassing the Bird Bug
speaker/amplifier, but I get no output from it. There must be a drastic
impedance mismatch between my mixer input and the mic's output.
Yesterday I found some squirrel recordings on the web, and I'm now pretty
well convinced that my mystery sound was a squirrel.
Jerry Berrier
108 Bumble Bee Circle
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
508-845-9944
Visit my Web Site: http://www.townisp.com/~jerry.berrier
-----Original Message-----
From: Martyn Stewart
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 11:30 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [Nature Recordists] Introduction; Mystery Sound
Jerry, I have a gray squirrel here that makes a similar sound while there is
a predator about or maybe my dog is let out for a pee!
So don't right off the squirrel, they are very deceiving at times, BTW what
is your mic & set up that you use?
Martyn
http://www.naturesound.org <http://www.naturesound.org/>
_____
From: Jerry Berrier
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 10:21 AM
To: Nature Recordists
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Introduction; Mystery Sound
Greetings,
It has been a year or two since I was on this list.
On my web site I've recorded a number of bird and animal sounds. They're
all MP3 files; I hope that's considered acceptable.
I have a mystery mp3 file at
http://www.townisp.com/~jerry.berrier/mystery.mp3
I think it's squirrels, but I'm really not sure. I recorded it with my Bird
Bug" mike which is permanently mounted on the back of my house and wired
into my sound card through a mixer.
Jerry Berrier
108 Bumble Bee Circle
Shrewsbury, MA 01545
508-845-9944
Visit my Web Site: http://www.townisp.com/~jerry.berrier
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
_____
Yahoo! Groups Links
* To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/
* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
<=Unsubscribe>
* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo!
<http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Terms of Service.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy
Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer
at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada.
http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511
http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/PMYolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
Yahoo! Groups Links
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
|