Hi Rich,
Well, you've got me thinking.
Two question.
What's the reason you would not recommend the parabola for someone who is
blind? Certainly it's got to be more difficult to carry around than a
shotgun mic.
Second. Perhaps I should buy a shotgun microphone instead. Could that mic
later be paired with a parabolic dish, or must I use an omnidirectional mic
with the dish?
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Peet
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:49 PM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Seeking Low-cost Commercially Available
Parabolic system
I am not a salesman first. I am a recordist.
My first choice for a mic when I am in the woods in zero light is and
will be a shotgun mic.
Also, when I am recording blind I want to hear both the direct sound
and the recorded sound. For that my first choice are the ear phones
made by sony for MD which are available as an inexpensive separate
product.
Those small earphones allow you to put them at the back of your ear
where you can hear both and you will be able to understand which is
which. These cost under $15.00 as they are used by joggers.
A 5 degree viewing angle large dish is not a product I would
recommend for the blind but I support in whole the capture of natural
sound by the blind. You will find you have much to offer as many in
this field do not hear that well and you can exceed what they can do.
Rich
--- In "Jerry Berrier"
<> wrote:
> Wow, this is sounding good.
> My biggest problem with construction is that I am totally blind and
> therefore unable to look at a picture and then try to use that as a
design.
> I've never had my hands on a parabolic system, so I don't know
exactly how
> the various parts fit together.
> I did put together a very crude one a few months ago using a plastic
> umbrella and a cheap mic, and even that actually worked
surprisingly well.
>
> If I were able to get a set of explicit verbal instructions, I
could follow
> them and perhaps construct a system that would be usable.
> I'm mechanically inclined and can usually do a project once I can
fully
> understand it.
> I understand that the mic faces into the parabola instead of away
from it.
> I think the mic can be attached directly to what might be called
the shaft
> of the umbrella, and it can be adjusted by sliding it up or down
the shaft.
> I don't fully understand the concept of the focal point; seems to
me that
> would be in the exact center of the parabola, but evidently that is
not the
> case.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Griswold
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:07 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Re: Seeking Low-cost Commercially
Available
> Parabolic system
>
>
>
>
> what if you got a telinga replacement dish $100 ?
> and made a pvc handle (see below) less than $100
> and got a shure 183 $100
> and had someone change the plug less than $100
> then you could add another 183 for stereo $100
> and still be under budget.
>
> not exactly off the shelf, but not a whole lot of diy involved
either.
> The handle involves screwing together off the shelf threaded pvc
> fittings.
>
> the guy at my local hardware store really got into helping me.
> Hopefully you will have similar luck. (I have the original handle,
but
> I wanted another one that would slip down over the top of a mic
stand).
>
> an electronics repair place could change the mic plug. I used a
> switchcraft right angle plug ($7), but there are cheaper, easier to
> find plugs.
>
> I did it myself over a cup of tea, so it shouldn't take them long.
> Someone (Rob Danielson?) posted instructions that you could give
them.
>
> good luck,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
Yahoo! Groups Links
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