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Re: Ithaca, NY - Two pools of Spring Peepers, Pickerel Frog

Subject: Re: Ithaca, NY - Two pools of Spring Peepers, Pickerel Frog
From: "Dan Dugan" dandugan_1999
Date: Mon May 12, 2008 6:51 pm ((PDT))
David Michael wrote:

> This is my first recording of the season as well as the first time I
> have heard a Pickerel Frog in the flesh. The recording was made this
> past Saturday night, May 10th, on Connecticut Hill in Ithaca New York
> at about 8:30 pm . Two medium sized pools, separated by a bank of
> trees each host a small group of Spring Peepers, each engaging in
> their own choral bouts. A single Pickerel Frog quietly calls out from
> among the Peepers. Gunshots can be heard in the distance, presumably
> from hunters, though I do not know what is in season.

Very nice! On near speakers, I got very clear beyond-left-and-right  
imaging.

> There is a slight hiss (very slight) which I presume is the self-noise
> of the microphones and is probably not helped by the FR2-LE's preamps.
> Any comment on this? I have experimented and recorded alot with this
> rig, and this is the best performance I can squeeze out of it. Is this
> a typical self-noise level of the MKHs and I am just expecting too
> much from microphones?

If I turn it up enough to hear the hiss, the near peepers are  
deafening! Your noise level is great and nothing to worry about.
>

-Dan Dugan



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