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Re: how high will a mic go?

Subject: Re: how high will a mic go?
From: Doug Von Gausig <>
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 09:30:55 -0700
I've resampled a section of your recording, Rich, and posted to to the 
Nature Recordists file area at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/files/. This is a 1/5 speed 
resample - very interesting. If we could get some more "feeding buzzes" 
etc. we'd be on the way to IDing bats more easily by echolocation sounds.

Doug

At 07:48 PM 5/8/2004, you wrote:
>In a out of list conversation on the why do you want higher sample
>rates.  I was asked if my mics can get close to the max of a 96khz
>sample.  Well I didn't know for sure so I tried my mic as a bat
>detector tonight.
>
>The old mkh-110 seems to have no problem capturing this bat up at
>about 30,000 cycles.
>
>The loud sound is a stone bouncing off my roof as I tossed the stone
>in the air to attract the bat.  Works every time to bring them in
>closer.  From the spectral display that was not needed.
>
>24/96 uses some disk space.  If you want to see how the mic
>responded you are stuck with a 3.7 meg download at:
>
><http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/bat.wav>http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/bat.wav
>
>I still don't know how high a good mic can go.
>
>Rich Peet
>Still haven't played with the resamples yet as this spring has been
>hell on equipment. This week I blew a mom board in the laptop, the
>cell phone extended antenna and handsfree charger, a van water pump,
>and a cd burner.  The reason this happened is because the warblers
>arrived and I wanted to be out all the time.  Machines know to brake
>when there is urgency.
>
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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Doug Von Gausig
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