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Re: A short dawn chorus recording from AWSRG weekend

Subject: Re: A short dawn chorus recording from AWSRG weekend
From: "Paul Jacobson" thebrunswicktwitcher
Date: Wed Oct 8, 2008 1:16 am ((PDT))
Hi Andrew,

Thanks for sharing your recording. I was extremely impressed when I  
had a quick listen to your rig on the weekend. The detail and tonal  
balance of the recording is quite stunning.

Looking at the spectrogram of your recording  there seems to be quite  
a bit more activity in the "highs", which could be due to the wrens.   
Do you run the mkh20's flat or are you using the diffuse field  
correction setting?

I've taken a hint from the peak levels in your mp3. I've been  
recording at 24bit/48khz with fairly conservative peak levels - just  
in case of low level Cockatoo fly-by - but was unsure of just how far  
to boost the levels.  I've adjusted the edited file to peak at about  
-1.6dB and it sounds a bit more reasonable, although the barking dog  
and cows in the distance are now a little more obvious.

cheers
Paul

On Oct 8, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Andrew Skeoch wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> In response to Paul's posting of his recording from the AWSRG
> weekend, I thought offering a sample from my SASS recording from the
> same location may be of interest.
>
> I was delighted with this location. Although there was some rural
> noise around (chainsaws in the afternoon), it was relatively quiet in
> the early morning. The reserve's 'Bird Paddock' was a lovely spot;
> serene, and with a good diversity of bird species. It was a bush
> creekline, rich with dense shrubs, some exotic plantings, and crowned
> with tall eucalypts. Wrens, robins and scrubrwens flitted through the
> understory, and honeyeaters, shrike-tits and cuckoos were higher in
> the canopy.
>
> Although it is from the same location, my recording was made the
> following morning to Paul's. A slightly different mix of species is
> evident. You can hear Superb Fairy Wrens (bright, tinkly 'reels'),
> White-naped Honeyeaters (soft "wewp, wewp"), and the melodic calls of
> a Golden Whistler in the background. A White-browed Scrubwren comes
> in close (around 2.00 making "tchek, tchek" calls) and a pair of Long-
> billed Corellas fly overhead (2.15). The warden of the reserve's
> daughter had a rooster, heard distantly, and even it is quite musical!
>
> My rig is a Walter Knapp modified SASS with MKH20s running directly
> into SD722.
>
> http://www.listeningearth.com.au/blog_images/2008_10/
> Clarkesdale_Spring.mp3
>
> Enjoy the aussie spring!
>
> Andrew
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