Nice to see you back too Geoff :-)
The frog chorus certainly takes me back home, the frog chorus sounds on your
website sound like a fleet of these American Hawk helicopters!!
Incredible, I had forgotten the sound of our frog! I am spoilt since my
arrival here with so many frogs and toads to pick from although up here in
Seattle we are not as blessed as Walt in Georgia..
Was that our crow calling on the single frog call?
I like your website pal, great stuff :-)
Martyn
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From: Geoff Sample
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:15 AM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: New Sennheiser mic and frogs
Hi All
Good to see you back Lang.
I too welcome any new kit that'll help me get my recordings, but with a more
compact and LIGHTER load. I've just started having remedial massage on my
neck and shoulders and I'm sure one of the contributory factors was the
weight of kit-bag1 hanging round my neck (with DAP1, battery pack -6 D
cells, MP2, tapes, torch, tools etc). That's as well as optional back-pack
with stereo rig (MKH30&50), tripod, prob. MKH70 on serious outing and either
25m or 100m (the real killer) of stereo cable. And I do do this for fun!
it's just the years are catching up.
Anyway, though I'm interested in the new Sennheiser 418s, I'm disappointed
that they've gone for the supercardioid mid. The idea of highly directional
and ambient combined has always seemed a bit of a conceptual oxymoron in my
mind, though I know many of you get great results from this kind of
approach. I can see how the 418 will be ideal for a lot of TV and media work
- a tight pick-up on the subject, with some optional ambience for
post-production. I'll be interested in hearing it, but expect I'll be
sticking with the 30/50 & 40 combinations.
All you guys over the pond esp. Walt waxing lyrical about your frogs make us
feel a little inadequate here in UK with only one native species. We've got
a few 'alien invaders' about, but recently lost the only other possibly
indigenous species (small population of Pool Frogs in Norfolk). And the
American Bullfrogs escaped in the south of England are being hunted out;
apparently they're voracious predators and are doing very well on our Common
Frog. Incidently, absolutely no allegories intended here!!
However our common frog (Rana temporaria) can deliver a rich, if rather
quiet, chorus. Which you can hear on the monthly feature page of my website
(getting a little more care and attention now).
http://www.wildsong.co.uk/monthly_feature.html
The main chorus clip was recorded with MS set up in the marsh on a small
tripod, so I guess the nearest frogs would be about 6-12 inches away from
the actual mics. I was 25m away.
Hope you enjoy it, Geoff.
Geoff Sample
Wildsong Studios
Northumberland, UK
http://www.wildsong.co.uk
This month's feature on common frogs:
http://www.wildsong.co.uk/monthly_feature.html
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'Music is everywhere if only we had the ears to listen'. John Cage
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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