Hi Mike,
Thanks for the photo and description. Your rig looks well camouflaged.
I'll keep an eye out for similiar camo insect nettting. Did you paint
your tripod?
I too have been using a homemade Jecklyn disk (more or less standard)
with AT-3032s, which I should have mentioned I used for my Dawn Chorus
Day recordings.
John Hartog
www.rockscallop.org
--- In Michael Oates <> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Thanks :)
>
> I really should have taken some photos as I was constructing it, but
here is one showing
> it finished.
>
> http://www.mikeoates.org/arl/wildlife/jecklin_array1.jpg
>
> Inside is a pair of Sennheiser MKH20 mics separated at 170mm and are
basically mounted on
> a stereo bar using the standard mic holders for these mics. In
between these is a barrier
> made from 9mm MDF covered with 10mm each side of acoustic foam. The
barrier instead of
> being circular of about 330mm I used an oval shape about 160mm high
and 220mm deep. The
> whole array has an aluminium frame going around it to support the
coverings, of which
> there are up to four. The reduced size of barrier was to make it
more portable.
>
> The closest one to the mics at about 75mm distant to give plenty of
air space around the
> mics is a dual layer of Tulle Long Net with wadding sandwiched
between. Next is a layer of
> fleece, over that is faux fur and finally just to make it less
obvious to wildlife some
> Insect Net from http://www.wildlifewatchingsupplies.co.uk Obviously
not all layers may be
> needed, that will depend on the weather. I am aware that some audio
losses will occur, but
> for this recording I used the lot, so it can't have that much of an
effect.
>
> I will try and take some detail shots and post here, but it will not
be for a few days as
> I will be away.
>
> Mike
>
>
> >Nice stuff Mike! An auspicious sign it seems - losing one's boot to
> >the muck. Can you describe your modified Jecklin Disk array?
> >
> >John Hartog
> >www.rockscallop.org
> >
> >
> >--- In Michael Oates <me@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dawn Chorus 4 May 2008 Compilation
> >>
> >> I thought I would share my very first recording of a dawn chorus, it
> >just happened that I
> >> planned to do this on the very same day as International Dawn Chorus
> >Day, yes it really
> >> was a coincidence. I was using it as a practice run for next weekend
> >when I am going on a
> >> trip to the Northumberland National Park for wildlife recording.
> >>
> >> This is recorded just outside of a village called Walshaw in
> >Lancashire UK. The file below
> >> is a compilation of approx 5 x 2 min clips from a single 44 min
> >recording started at
> >> 4:54am I was planning an earlier start, but when I got to the
> >location I was going to
> >> record from, I got stuck, literally. Note to self: "do not walk
> >through fields that you
> >> have not walked through in daylight first" I ended up almost knee
> >deep in a bog, took all
> >> my effort to keep the gear out of the mud, sacrificing my foot to
> >the wet mud when my
> >> Wellington boot came off !.
> >>
> >> Once I got out I was all set to go home wet and frustrated, but I
> >found another spot on a
> >> public footpath not too far away and decided to stay and record. I
> >am glad I did, as these
> >> are the best bird recordings I have done yet. Some of the time there
> >was some light rain
> >> but it was light enough not to record, later on it got quite heavy
> >as you will be able to
> >> hear.
> >>
> >> I won't try and say which birds are on the recording, because I am
> >very new to this and I
> >> am learning to identify them, for me it's a long slow process.
> >>
> >> Recorded using a modified Jecklin Disk array with two Sennheiser
> >MKH20 mics to a Fostex
> >> FR-2LE via a Sound Devices 302 mixer. The whole array was protected
> >from the wind rain
> >> with faux fur over a frame. I had the 160Hz high pass filter on the
> >302 and used a very
> >> gentle base EQ cut in Audition to remove some distant traffic rumble.
> >>
> >> The file is 10m54s long and is a 14.9MB mp3 encoded at 192kbps
> >>
> >>
>
>http://www.mikeoates.org/arl/wildlife/dawn_chorus_compilation_20080504.mp3
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >
>
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