In the last 24 hours I've become a nature recordist
and now I've got to get it off my chest.
I'm Mike Feldman, fiftysomething from Champaign, IL, USA;
I'm a software engineer by trade and a DAT-Head turned
serious amateur sound engineer (http://www.weft.org/comp/).
I started by documenting my son's musical career, then
collecting my favorite local bands from bars, record/book
stores and outdoor gigs until the weekly live music radio show
satisified my compulsion to roll DAT, MD, CD-R, or hard disk.
My first borrowed-DAT recordings were with Core-Sound Binaurals
and I quickly learned to solder Radio Shack and then Panasonic
electret capsules, and got tired of holding my head still and
quiet, so I built a few "binaural" heads
(http://www.advancenet.net/~feldman/cloyd.jpg), joined the
micbuilders list (nee MicDIYers), and met Rich Peet,
Walter Knapp and others there.
I also joined the AES as an associate and got interested
in infrasonic mics from a UIUC student chapter project.
Other interests are music, photography and graphic arts,
SF, astronomy and cycling and nature in general, and almost
everything wierd or whimsical.
So I was walking my dog last night and heard this warbly
resonant sound from up and somewhere in the urban residential
treetops and on a lark I dug out my portable DAT and a pair
of DIY PZM mics I built, and got some faint recordings from
the back yard, then took off on foot, and lucked into one louder
sample from under a big maple a few houses away. Sucked it
onto my Mac today and emailed an MP3 to Rich Peet figuring he
could tell me if it was a bird, which, after a bit of confusion
and stumbling around, he did. So I shared it with micbuilders:
http://www.advancenet.net/~feldman/200403051100_Bird.mp3
And I had fun denoising and amping it:
http://www.advancenet.net/~feldman/200403051100_Bird_NR.aiff
Then Rich suggested I join this list.
So anyone here into 10 Hz and below?
-- Mike
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:26:54 2005
Message: 11
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 20:17:12 -0800
From: "Martyn Stewart" <>
Subject: RE: Re: Mountain Quail?
Now I hear the NOPO I am convinced mine is too, there is however a cluck
half way into the recording that threw me, Yes Doug I have the same bird yo=
u
recorded in Yuba Pass and they are higher pitched, I think I talked myself
into thinking it was this time too :-)
Martyn
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From: Doug Von Gausig
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:44 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Re: Mountain Quail?
At 03:17 PM 3/6/2004, you wrote:
>Not a Mountain Quail but does sound close to that.
>IMHO it is a Northern Pygmy Owl.
That's my guess, too - NOPO. Mountain Quail is higher and sharper. I can
send you mine from Yuba Pass, if you need.
Doug
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Doug Von Gausig
Digitally Recorded Birds Sounds at:
http://naturesongs.com/birds.html
Clarkdale, Central Arizona, USA
34=B046.34N 112=B003.25W
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