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Re: Parabolic dish sources in UK ?

Subject: Re: Parabolic dish sources in UK ?
From: "Mark R." seoulgypsy
Date: Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:07 am (PDT)
Hey Klas,

Be careful handing out those precious trade secrets so liberally ;^)

Best,

Mark "the funnel" Ragsdale


On 6/18/06, Klas Strandberg <> wrote:
>
>    Just let me add that isolating the mic by a big rubber suspension is
> the
> wrong thinking: The most annoying handling noise come from the dish and
> focuses at the mic, acoustically. (depending on the design)
> It is (often) the dish which needs to be isolated from the handle. (Also)
>
> If you really need a "poor mans bird mic" I recommend experimenting with =
a
>
> 10 mm electret, cheapest kind + a cone for gasoline, the bigger the
> better.
> Place the mic with the membrane at the "exit" angle of the cone and seal
> acoustically with silicon, so that the entire cone becomes a pressure
> volume.
>
> Klas.
>
>
> At 09:10 2006-06-18, you wrote:
> >--- In <naturerecordists%40yahoogroups.c=
om>,
> "David Harris" <>
> >wrote:
> > >
> > > Any pointers gartefully investigated.
> >
> >The guys that make this way be worth a call
> >
> >http://www.wildlife-sound.org/equipment/amberwood.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Microphones are not ears,
> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
> >A listening room is not nature."
> >Klas Strandberg
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
> S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
> Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
> email:  <telinga%40bahnhof.se>
> website: www.telinga.com
>
>
>
>



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Mark Ragsdale

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