Re: ants

["Rich Peet" <>]

--- In  Gianni Pavan <> 
wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>          I don't understand what is your goal. Just to have a 
sensor to 
> detect their movements or are you interested in their communicative 
sounds ?
> 
> In the past I recorded many species able to stridulate. 

My goal was actually to understand piezo pickups more than I 
currently do. I am on the road to building a decent hydrophone which 
I can not afford so need to read and experiment. So after wiring a 
piezo direct to a mic input that Rob gave me from his junk box I just 
walked around listening to everything from car engines to 
refrigerators.

I am interested in ant communicative sounds but was just surprised to 
detect what I can not hear.  And the word "stridulate" is actually 
new to me as well.  I have some reading to do for sure. Thanks for 
the offer and may take you up on it when I get the basics behind me.

My condensor mics don't seem to be able to pick this ant up and I 
stoped at a 22,000 sample rate because I figured I would need a small 
mp3 or no one would bother.

I have not posted to the equipment list of members here either 
because all I would have to say is I own an extensive junkbox in 
which "stuff" has either been modified or is about to be.  So I guess 
my equipment list would be mere stridulations.

Rich



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