Re: microphone stands in the field

["Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999]

John Hartog, you asked,

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

ISO 1996.1-1982 "Acoustics--Description and measurement of
environmental noise" says, for outdoors, "the preferred measurement
height is 1.2 to 1.5 m above the ground."

That's roughly the range from seated to standing ear height.

-Dan Dugan