Paul,
There is a lovely atmospheric soft sigh of wind in the mallees, I'm
thinking it was a cold morning? And so evocative of place, and
haunting calls as you say. Makes me think of waking up in the
desert, first hint of light, snug in a sleeping bag, surrounded by
red sand and dingo footprints.
Vicki
On 01/10/2009, at 3:13 PM, Paul Jacobson wrote:
> Hi Vicki and Dan
>
> Thanks! It was pretty nice sitting there listening to the Spiny's -
> the calls are really quite haunting.
>
> Maybe I'm being unfair on the way the HDP2 and AT3032's!! I'd really
> need to test the phantom output on near flat batteries to be 100% sure
> that was the cause - the fact the recorder powered down due to low
> batteries shortly after may just be co-incidence. I know at least a
> few mics behave badly when the phantom voltage drops, so my initial
> thoughts were that there was cause and effect relationship.
>
> It might simply be the honeyeaters were a little to distant from the
> mics in the conditions. It had been particularly windy during the
> night but was relatively calm in the morning. Perhaps the Mallee scrub
> is more noisy in light breeze conditions than what I'm used to.
>
> cheers
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 01/10/2009, at 2:38 PM, vickipowys wrote:
>
>> What luck that your recorder held out long enough to get a recording
>> even if some degree of hiss was added due to low battery.
>> (Interesting to know that this can happen!)
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
|