Welcome Curt. It is great to see another MN recordist.
We have a number of active recordists in MN and WI. Some of which
watch this list. Part of the reason for our numbers is the quality
of soundscapes this area still has. It is hard to protect and find
interest in what is already gone. Of course I am a bit biased. We
are close to having enough active people to support a formal group
and that may happen in the next few years. Enjoy and I hope to run
into you soon.
Rich Peet
--- In Curt Olson <> wrote:
> An interesting thread about animal responses vs. human responses!
The
> brilliant thinker C.S. Lewis discussed this briefly in his little
book
> "The Problem of Pain." He speculates that while animals may
experience
> many of the same physical/chemical sensations humans do, they lack
> sufficient self awareness and sense of time passing to be able to
> conclude "I am in pain," "I have lost my mate," etc. This would
support
> what others have cautioned us here about projecting human emotional
> responses onto animals.
>
> Incidentally, I am new to this list, so I'll introduce myself. I'm
a
> professional audio engineer/producer located in Minneapolis/St.
Paul,
> Minnesota, USA. My "bread and butter" work is nationally syndicated
> radio programing, speech-based audio projects, music for media and
> studio album production. My interest in nature recording is
primarily
> personal -- to capture and extend some of my outdoor excursions,
> usually on public lands in far northern Minnesota. My outdoor
recording
> rig is a Sony TCD-D7 DAT recorder fed by a pair of Sure Beta 58
> microphones in an ORTF configuration. The Sony's pre-amps are
noisy,
> but I accept that trade-off in the interest of light weight and
> simplicity. Some may be tempted to laugh at my mic selection, but I
> arrived at it after extensive testing with a number of possible
choices
> including AT stereo mics, Crown PZMs, high-end AKG and Neumann
> condensers in various XY, MS, ORTF, spaced and "binaural" arrays.
In
> every way, I've found the Beta 58s to be possibly the best-kept
secret
> in the microphone world, and the ORTF array to give me the best
> compromise between stereo imagery and mono compatibility for field
> recording. YMMV.
>
> I tend to stay away from MS due to off-axis "smearing" of the sound
> source (on the VERTICAL axis). I tend to stay away from compressed
> audio formats since much of my work gets transcoded multiple times
> downstream from me. I've never used a reflector as my interests
lean
> more toward stereo soundscapes rather than capturing isolated sound
> sources.
>
> Now you know...
>
> Curt Olson
> Track Seventeen Productions, Inc.
> Minneapolis, Minnesota
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