There used to be a group of people who frequently posted sounds of their
work here but they too got bored with all the gear talk and you very rarely
see them anymore unfortunately.
I too get extremely bored with all the talk about "gadgets" I wouldn't mind
but most of this talk is never backed up with actual recording of nature
sounds with it. I moderate this group for Doug and I can barley read the
first lines of e-mails to honest with you.
I have tried and tested various mics for what you are talking about and find
I am extremely happy with them. Depending on what you want to do, I
generally use my MKH series mics in the field and regularly set them up the
night before. The dawn chorus as you rightly said is more intense around the
spring and early summer. I have also had some success using the great little
ECM-55 Sony mics tied to a tree using a cord wrapped around it clipping the
mics on each side.
Example http://tinyurl.com/98cxo
Depending on where you are these mics are little gems for the price.
By-the-way, where are you living and what private land?
Stick with it Dave, its better than watching reality TV :)
Martyn
****************************************
Martyn Stewart
Bird and Animal Sounds Digitally Recorded at:
http://www.naturesound.org
Redmond. Washington. USA
N47.65543 W121.98428
e-mail:
Tel: 425-898-0462
Make every Garden a wildlife Habitat!
*****************************************
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of david briggs
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 3:14 AM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] should we change the name of this group to
geartalk
It was only recently that I resubscribed to this list. I have started
camping in a private forest and thus have the opertunity to secord some of
its inhabitants. The dawn chorus was amazing earlier this year and there are
all maner of wee beasties to record. I am interested in building some mic
sheilds that would stand up to being mounted in trees and such. How do other
people cope with weather and planting mics ?
I am getting a little bored with the discussion on this group of recording
gear. I know it is essential stuff and quite specific to this style of
recording but.... it dosent half get boring....isnt there another place for
this constant talk about gear ?....
Ide love to hear a bit more about recording itself .... subject matter ...
new discoveries... locations...some recordings...
rant over.
thanks for reading.... I do appreciate alot of what on this group most of
the time....
dave
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
Yahoo! Groups Links
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
|