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Re: Budgies

Subject: Re: Budgies
From: Vicki Powys <>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:31:43 +1000
Rich,

Listening through headphones it sounded like you had your budgies in two
separate cages, one at each end of your kitchen.  Were they?  And what mic
set up did you use?  Very realistic though (and a long way from home!)

Vicki Powys
Australia







on 30/3/04 7:56 AM, Rich Peet at  wrote:

 
> To answer a prior post of yours on how loud domestic budgies are.
> And to state how much I like 24 bit.  I recorded two budgies in my
> kitchen on Sat AM and then played them back to 4 people over the
> weekend wearing headphones.  I set the volume and had the recorder
> where they had to stand where the mics were.  All four did not detect
> when the recording was going.  Two stated to me that they were still
> on pause and two asked what they were listening to.  All I had to say
> was take the headphones off.  Then they knew that the birds were
> actually not singing while they were listening.  You only get part of
> a 16 bit mp3 version, but you will get the idea.
> 
> 2 Budgie dawn chorus in a small kitchen
> ~650kb download
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/budgies.mp3
> 
> Rich Peet
> 



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