Re: ants

[Rob Danielson <>]

At 6:11 PM +0000 6/21/04, Rich Peet wrote:
>I don't have a clue what is going on in this recording.
>
>I have been playing with piezo's a bit.
>The linked recording is from putting one in a ant mound.
>The ants were about 1/8" and the hill about 1/2" tall.
>The clicks are when they walk on the pickup.
>The roar is the minidisc motor on the ground about 2 feet away.
>They don't seem to happy with my mic being there.
>
>I obviously have some more work to do on a resonator to even out some
>freqs but thought the mad ants were kind a neat and I have not seen
>many posts on micro targets.
>
>200kb download
>http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/ant.mp3
>
>Rich

Wild! Could the squeaks be vocalizations of some sort-- or leg scrapes?
Actually, it doesn't seem bad on excessive resonance in the low and 
mids as piezo recordings go. The high end is definitely kicked-up for 
a piezo. Are you just driving it direct into the mic pre? Rob D.

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