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Re: Understanding Pacific Chorus Frog Calls

Subject: Re: Understanding Pacific Chorus Frog Calls
From: "Lou Judson" inaudio
Date: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:45 pm ((PDT))
EQ? No EQ needed - it needs tuning! In my live sound work, untuned
guitars seem to disappear in my mixes. Could you move another hundred
feet or so from the guitar, toward the frogs?!? Or get the girl to
sing?

;-) Nice environmental recording, actually, and very "California" but
more like I knew it in the 70s...

Thanks! Those frogs sound like home to me, too bad the ones I know live
so close to a freeway.

<L>

Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Mar 27, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Rich Peet wrote:

> I only have one recording of pacific chorus frogs. Now a bit more than
> 5 years old. It involved me not having a car when in CA and going to
> hear the frogs with a "couple". Greg Clark of this group helped me
> edit this file and to this day I still do not know how to eq a guitar.
> I remember insisting that we kept the girl in the track because this
> guy at the time was all about the girl.  I do not know if they ended
> up married but will need to check because they should have.
>
> Recorded live in 100% black of night at 32F with a mono me-67. I had
> to step back over 30' from the guitar to eq the frogs to the voice.
> Notice how the frogs do what they do and shut up on cue.
>
> If anyone knows how I should approach eq of the guitar I will try
> again.
>
> 1.2 meg download
> http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/GerryMunck.mp3
>
> Rich Peet
>
> --- In  "davem98607" <>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am not a biologist or nature recordist, but I do enjoy sound and
>> make crude recordings with my camcorder every once in a while.
>> Someday when time and budget allow I would like to get into it more.
>>
>> I recently recorded some Pacific Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris regilla) in
>> my backyard pond (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/packsViewSingle.php?
>> id=3D2029).  I used a simple binaural mic connected to a digital
>> camcorder.  I set the mics on the ground right at the edge of the
>> pond, and let the camera record for 45 minutes.
>>
>> In listening to the recording I noticed that quite often the frogs
>> seemed to begin their "chorus" when a distant sound began to increase
>> in volume.  e.g. from an airplane or train.  I am guessing the frogs
>> are trying to scare off the "competitor" - or was this just a
>> coincidence?
>>
>
>
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>





"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg

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