Dear Nature Recordists
I have posted two wav files in the "Nature Recordist's Lair"
section of Fonozoo.com
http://www.fonozoo.com/eng/rinconbioacustico.php
One of two recordings made with PMD 660 under controlled laboratory
condition. One is a unit that was modified by Oade Brothers, the
other one is a unit "out of the box". I used the only model of
microphone of which we have two units in our lab.
I am very happy with the unit modified by Oade Bros which I have
tested in the field this past summer. the other unit was only
purchased recently and I have not tried it yet (more comparative
recordings
The sounds recorded were emitted by a Aiwa AFB-7 self amplified
speaker in a semi-anechoic chamber. Recordings were made
synchronously with two microphones Sennheiser MKH 416 - P 48 U 3.
I did not have time to analyze the resulting recordings (and given
the lack of markings in the dial button of the recording gain knob in
the PMD 660 I could not correct accurately for gain level, but from
the first look at them it seems that the Oade-modified performs a bit
better (but the out of the box model is far from being as bad as
described in some messages, (perhaps it is one of the faulty units of
early PD 660s?).
Indenpendently of the comparative tests maybe you will enjoy the recordings=
...
Warm regards from Madrid
R
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Dr. Rafael Marquez
Fonoteca Zoologica, Dept. de Biodiversidad y Biologia Evolutiva
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)
Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2
28006 Madrid
Spain
e-mail:
phone +34 91 4111328 ext 1257
fax +34 91 5645078
www.fonozoo.com
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