Hi patrick,
Just a guess but, I think all the sounds are related to the hive. What sounds
like a bird is an individual insect buzzing directly against the wall material.
Regarding your recorder noise. My PMD670 had a similar issue with the first
mics I used with it. Those mics were Cascade M-1s that I got free with the
purchase of the recorder. The noise coincided with blinking of the lcd, or with
turning the light on or off. Marantz of course blamed it on the mics. When I
switched to NT1As the noise went away. I had since forgotten about that issue,
but should test it with my AT2032s.
John Hartog
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> i made these recordings in the house where i am currently staying, a
> large old farmhouse in northeastern france. i realise they are very
> noisy, quite awful really, but i only made them for id purposes. i
> began hearing these sounds in early april, inside the wall of my bedroom
> late at night. the room is on the 2nd floor (1st, if you're french) and
> is actually under the roof, so the wall cavity is between plasterboard
> and an old clay tile roof. the cavity is also adjacent to a large
> inaccessible attic area that i happen to know houses quite a few bats.
> it seems pretty crowded in there: along with the bats and these fellows,
> in the 2nd recording you can here quite a bit of buzzing that indicates
> there is now a hive in there as well. the question is: anyone know who
> they are?
>
> http://www.murmerings.com/prive/inthewall1.mp3
> http://www.murmerings.com/prive/inthewall2.mp3
>
> these were recorded on the 27th of april and the 9th of may,
> respectively, with contact microphones attached to the plasterboard.
>
> best,
> patrick
>
> ps - another aspect of this recording: in both excerpts you can hear, at
> high volume, a regular static burst, almost like a ticking clock. this,
> sadly, happens with every contact mic recording i make with my
> oade-modded fostex fr2-le, although it is only audible in situations
> like this (an extremely faint signal with gain and rec levels max'ed
> out). it has something to do with the blinking green light (is, in
> fact, synced with the blinking during recording) that is just above the
> recorder's 'rec stby' button. it only happens with my self-built
> contact mics, which are grounded and shielded and otherwise provide
> excellent results. anyone have an idea what's causing this? a
> grounding issue in my mic wiring that i could resolve myself perhaps?
>
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