Yup. It's easy. Just make very certain that your recorder and
hydrophones are properly secured to the deck or cockpit of the kayak
(there's not much room for movement or mistakes in that regard) and
think out every step BEFORE you do it. Also, bring a small thick
piece foam rubber (perhaps 4x4x2) and lay your cable over it so it
doesn't hit the side of the kayak in the swells or waves. And the
last thing is to make sure that there's either a "C" or "S" curve in
the h-phone cable attached with a type of light action bungy-type
cord. That'll prevent "blocking" when the wave action affects the
boat.
Bernie
>I am heading to Baja, sea kayaking with a set of stereo hydrophones
>going after some
>neat sounds. Other then dropping them down over the side anyone have
>any specific
>experience recording that way?
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>Any suggestions to get me started would be appreceated?
>
>Thanks,
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>Charlie
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:26:39 2005
Message: 10
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 04:47:29 +1000
From: Syd Curtis <>
Subject: Re: Wild Soundscapes announcement
How fortunate am I! For a recent birthday, my son gave me Bernie's book
... and Lang's "Music of the Birds". Both super books; wonderful
recordings.
Bernie, that's great that your publisher is immediately going to a second
printing.
Buy up, naturerecordists, if you haven't already. Help Bernie pay for his
Galapagos trip; then he might visit Australia again. Lord Howe Island
beckons.
Lang is given to quoting poetry: Clarence Hawkes on the Grackle, for
example:
The Grackles are here and that is quite clear.
The morning is ringing - not with their singing,
But with their talking, they're piping and squawking
Some scandalous ditty, the more then's the pity.
The Grackles are here that's plain to your ear ...
My (more lowbrow?) tastes ran to another American poet:
The Grackle's voice is less than mellow,
His heart is black, his eye is yellow,
He bullies more attractive birds,
With hoodlum deeds and vulgar words,
And should a human interfere,
Attacks that human in the rear.
I cannot help but deem the grackle
An ornithological debacle.
"His heart is black, his eye is yellow, he bullies more attractive birds ...
" Could have been written about our Australian Currawong. (You agree,
Vicki?) But the Currawong has a pleasant voice.
Oh, the poet? Ogden Nash, of course.
Cheers
Syd Curtis in Brisbane, Australia.
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