At 3:50 PM -0400 7/18/05, Walter Knapp wrote:
>I certainly enjoy longer recordings, but, unfortunately, the sort of
>internet connection I have limits my ability to get them down.
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>The connection was doing good today, so it only took a little over two
>hours to get down the short version.
with a phone connect? gosh I hope not dsl or cable. It loads in real
time for me. I can play it immeadiately as soom as its in the
browser so we're in two worlds,..sorry about that.
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>I noticed something and would like to know it's source. Near the middle
>of the clip there are quite a few short pops. In addition, throughout
>the recording I notice a faint background crackle. The pops are
>particularly noticeable between 3 & 4 minutes in the short clip.
>its dripping water from the trees ,most all night long.
>Are either of these associated with just one mic in the original
>undecoded M/S recording?
X-Y, rodes are wide cardioid, this set-up spread 12' angled at 90 degrees,
>About all that I can think of natural for the
>pops would be small raindrops
You got it. dripping water from the trees , most all night long.
>. I'm wondering, therefore, if they are
>something from the equipment as I don't remember rain being reported.
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>The background crackle sounds suspiciously like the sound of the self
>noise of the mics. Is this the case for either of them? Or is it
>something in the processing?
Its the water on the leaves, the "plops." To hear break-up due to
moisture go to the last 1/4 and listen around 300 Hz to the right
channel. That's the rode givng up after ~8 hours in the humidity.
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>Frogs: Pickerel, Green, Spring Peepers, American Toad, and the double
>chromosome "common" gray treefrog.
Hey! I got em. You and your CD taught me well.
>Walt
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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