Very cool,
Looking forward to visiting one day.
Thanks for sharing your specs, keep us posted on how it progresses if
you continue to tweek it.
Danny
--- In "Rich Peet" <> wrote:
>
> Well this is where I have been lately.
>
> Building the sound portion of an exhibit for the Education and Visitor
> Center at my favorite recording venue.
>
> http://www.crexmeadows.org/
>
> I did the sound design, installation, recording, editing, etc for
> their new exhibit.
>
> The exhibit is divided into the three main areas of the wildlife
> management area. Brush Prairie, Sedge Marsh, Open Marshland. This is
> an area that is not undisturbed, rather it is managed for the
> maximizing of wildlife. Funded over the longhaul by hunters the
> exhibit includes a recreation of an old hunting shack. Most contents
> donated by the locals and it even has a 65lb Punt Gun from the old
> days of duck hunting. Fire, logging, water diversion and all other
> tools available are used in this area. Over 90% of all critter calls
> used in the sound exhibit were recorded within Crex land. Just
> outside the area is the site of Peet, WI. My namesake, where there are
> no longer any buildings, but is still known as having the first female
> postmaster in the US. The only evidence left of the town is the Peet
> cemetery.
>
> Back to Natural Sound. The exhibit was built around four DVD players
> and amps.
> 6 front channels make up the main sound field. The video and its audio
> is the 4th DVD player. The center channel of the 6 front channels and
> video is routed to headphones to give area sound with narrative.
> Surround channels are used for specialty channels. There is a speaker
> under the Sharp-tailed Grouse and under a Sandhill crane. The video
> front channel is played to a 32" parabolic 20' overhead of the video
> screen. One large sub-bass is located hidden under the landform.
> Sound activated by motion detection and the interface to the DVD
> players was custom designed and built by me. Still plenty of room for
> expansion. I can see that this will remain a work in progress for me
> for some time with further expansion by additional use of surround
> channels.
>
> Small picture downloads:
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/Sedge.jpg
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/Marsh.jpg
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/video.jpg
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/Prarie.jpg
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/stuffed.jpg
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/shack.jpg
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/Sharptails.jpg
>
> Amps by Yamaha
> Speakers by Definitive Technology
> DVD players by Sony
> Audio editing by Adobe Audition
> DVD encode by Sony Vegas
> Headphones by Sony
> Rackmount by "used surplus"
> Power UPS filtering by APC
>
> Rich
>
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