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Re: Bat Little Brown?

Subject: Re: Bat Little Brown?
From: Steve Pelikan <>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:08:31 -0400
High all --

I'm sorry I haven't been following the hardware discussions too carefully,=

but Rich's recent post that included the comment
"Makes me wish I had a 196khz sample rate

At 11:46 AM 9/24/2004, you wrote:
>Thanks,
>
>Recorded by laptop in mono at 24/96.
>Microphone is a very old Senn MKH-110
>a/d is a rme multiface.
>mic pre a rme quadmic.
>home made field case and power supplies for mic and equipment.
>
>In post. Sample rate adjusted to bring bat down to audible and expand
>time.
>Dynamic range altered about 6 db to amplify the quiet echos heard but
>not the primary calls volume.
>
>Recorded at a large city (Minneapolis, MN)lake shore. Drove around
>looking at the spectral display with the mic held out a sun roof
>window to find bats. Even in a city it is pretty quiet above 25,000.
>I am still trying to figure out an occational narrow few seconds tone
>above 30,000 heard. I don't know if it is an industrial sonar device
>or natural.  More work needed on that.
>
>Makes me wish I had a 196khz sample rate as the mic is pretty smooth
>up there to 40,000.  I have not done comparisons yet to my other mics
>to see if they can do this.
>
>Rich
>
>
>--- In  Gianni Pavan <>
>wrote:
> > Rich,
> >          great recording! please, can you give me details on
>recording
> > equipment and settings ?
> >
> > Gianni
>
>
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>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
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