Re: amplification of mic self-noise

[Walter Knapp <>]

From: Dan Dugan <>

> Well, it's my particular perversion, but the last couple of years 
> I've been making sure to record whenever I'm in a place that's really 
> quiet. I'm thinking of compiling it into a CD called something like 
> "recordings of nothing much or nothing at all." It wasn't for nothing 
> the Smithsonian Magazine called the Nature Sounds Society "those 
> peculiar people."

Any site can be a quiet one, just turn the gain down enough ;-)

Yep, we are a strange lot.

I often listen in at full gain on the Telinga. To home in on distant 
callers I can't hear without it. I've sometimes done that over well more 
than a mile and eventually zero in on them. Barking Treefrogs in 
particular are fairly easy to pick out of the distant muck.

Walt




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