Re: microphone stands in the field

["John Hartog" hartogj]

Hi Dan,

In such cases concerned with noise made by humans and as heard by
humans, it would make sense to limit microphone positioning to
locations commonly frequented by people, such as along a park's hiking
paths.  It would also make sense for the sake of consistency to decide
on set parameters for microphone arrays =96 including height above the
ground.

For the monitoring work you have been involved with, what is the
conventional height above ground for mic placement?

John Hartog

> John Hartog, you wrote,
>
> >One thing for sure is, natural soundscape recording has little to do
> >with the average height above the ground of the average human head =96
> >except for convenience which definitely counts for something.
>
> It's important for surveys and monitoring that
> have to do with interruption of natural
> soundscapes by human-made sounds.
>
> -Dan Dugan
>