Posted by: "geopaul7"
> I wish you would share some of your favorite recordings. I really think =
your Bufo
> americanus is a classic. Well, all your toads are great, as is the Bird =
voiced treefrog. Well,
> in fact, all your herps are classics. You have a recognized oeuvre.
>
> I don't think that people would think you were bragging if you posted som=
e of your
> favorites, and then gave a little explanation about the concept behind th=
e recording, how
> long you had been trying to get it, the technique involved, the field cra=
ft involved, perhaps
> some photos. This would be time consuming, but of immense help and grati=
fication to
> the rest of us. Perhaps it would start a new trend of people discussing =
many of the non-
> technical factors that go into great recording, with the end result of yo=
u actually get to
> listen to what is achievable by a master. Others might join in. Curt re=
cently did this by
> noting the ticks he encountered in his Chipewwa Series.
Or bounding out of the truck and grabbing the gear to record some oak
toads. And eventually noticing that you are standing on top of a very
angry fire ant mound. Makes for an interesting evening's recording.
I have from time to time put up recordings or noted something about
field technique. Most get no or little response, and those that do
mostly run off into technical equipment discussions. I used to try and
help beginners a lot, but when it got to where I was having to haggle
over technical details more than helping I kind of dropped most of that.
I also record with a recorder that's been tossed out as a choice more
than once. First because it records with ATRAC, lately because it's
nominally a 16 bit recorder. Who would want to listen to recordings that
have been called ugly and worse? Especially as the only practical way I
can put them up is in short mp3 clips.
I do have a fair number of samples up, actually have to juggle my
available webspace and allowed bandwidth constantly if I want to put
something up. You have to realize I have stuff up on a lot more than
nature recording. There's frogs, photography, machine embroidery design,
recordings for science being sent to specific people, rowing, my
recumbent trike and others all competing for my space. It's not all
interlinked, so you only see part of it.
Sharing full recordings is just not a practical thing via the internet.
Even the short clips I do are too big for some to use.
Walt
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