Thanks for the info. Recording birds you don't have to tune them.
Although some times you want to like the Yellow Headed Blackbird.
In this case the ride to the frogs and the recording would not have
exsisted without the beer that started the evening. Today with
multichannel I suppose the guitarist would have been fired on the
first note. The frogs are forgiven anyway.
Rich
--- In Lou Judson <> wrote:
>
> 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" <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
> >
> >
> >
>
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