Yeah. There have been too many "it is very important to focus the bird
exactly". What is important is to aim where it sounds good.
Klas.
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>> 90% (??) of all HQ mics will sound "scratchy" (shrill??) in that way.
>(more
>> or less) Also a Telinga mic, I'm afraid. I think it is quite common that
>> you get "key-like" sounds in focus of a parabol, lots of different HF
>peaks
>> in lots of different combinations, all of them within a very short time.
>> Sometimes I have described it even like "when you scratch with a metal
>fork
>> towards a porselin plate". It's just a total mess of random peaks.
>> This effect will always occur when you aim with a parabol exactly at a
>Grey
>> Flycather, for example.
>> You just have to aim below him, or somewhere nearby, or move out the mic a
>> bit. You can't filter this "scratch", no way.
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>I have found from experience that when I am very close 15 feet or so the
>sound is better if I point my Telinga slightly off axis. Now I think I know
>why.
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>Of course I try to keep the distance around 50 feet or so but when something
>is talking up close I usually don't risk moving back for fear of flushing
>the subject.
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>Jim
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>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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