Hi all ---
I faintly remember reading an article a while back by an entomologist
who recorded the sounds of thrips, mites, and leafhoppers by attaching
a phonograph cartridge to a twig on which the bugs were living so that
the needle touched the bark and then hooking the thing up to a recorder.
Perhaps I also read about this sort of thing here, though the obvious
searches didn't turn anything up.
Does anyone know of any references to the technique? Or, better, can
you tell me what circuit to build to connect a phono cartridge to a
recorder? I'd be happy enough to try it without looking at the literature.
More generally, I'd be interested in hearing about any small
transducers or microphones that I could use to record (say) individual
bugs walking around. Or worms eating their way through soil, which is
my current goal. I've got a worm bin (where we process all our kitchen
scraps) to practice on all winter.
NO! It isn't the case that I want to be ready to sell effects (FX?) to
the next movie based on Dune!
Sorry for always asking such goofy questions here, and thanks very
much for any info you can provide!
Steve P
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