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Subject: how high will a mic go?
From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 02:48:33 -0000
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

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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