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Re: Budgies

Subject: Re: Budgies
From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:53:09 -0000
That is right. two cages, two birds heard on opposite sides of the 
room.
The only birds I have are from one rescue or another.
Currently I have two. One old disabled budgie, and the second heard 
was a bird being kept while the people owned by the bird were on 
vacation.  I also have a Quaker and last year I lost my 23+ year old 
wild caught Macaw after continueing illness and over $4,000 US in vet 
bills.  My avian vet bills doing this have run as much as many pay in 
medical bills after insurance.  I have placed a number of other birds 
over the years and it seems that I am just one of those people that 
get called when something happens.  Captive birds do expand ones 
knowledge of what a bird is and what is of value to them.  This is 
the one area of my birding that my wife really likes.  The Quaker is 
bonded to her and the two are usually attached when she is here 
during daylight.

The mic setup was two ME-62's within the foam "blockhead" binaural.  
I still very much like this design.

Wish you could hear it in 24/41 it sounds better.

I hope by the end of the week to be recording again with the mkh-
110's but ran into trouble with a lot of equipment last week.  In 
fact I am still grounded until I can get a vehicle up again as I went 
through two of those last week.

Rich



--- In  Vicki Powys <> 
wrote:
> 
> 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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