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Subject: Re: diy mic outdoor enclosure
From: "Randy Perretta" first_avatar
Date: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:40 pm ((PST))
Thanks for the welcome.  I do appreciate it.

It's a pair of Fatheads with any of an assortment of shotguns, the idea bei=
ng to grab the subject of interest and retain content. The shotgun (or any =
other pattern if the situation fits) is mounted in the middle of the bar. I=
 use a Voxengo alignment plugin to keep things semi straight. An impulse at=
 the outset helps in that regard.

Each mic gets a channel in Logic on a Mac laptop.  The imaging is nice alth=
ough the ribbons seem to need gain.  I'm still working out the kinks on tha=
t particular arrangement.  I've been using the windscreen box for some time=
. I live on a windy mountaintop and like beach and desert locations which c=
an have some wind.  Think of it as a rabbit cage only smaller with foam ove=
r the wires...

It all goes into two flight cases in the back of a Jeep.

Randy

--- On Fri, 11/27/09, Rob Danielson <> wrote:

> From: Rob Danielson <>
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] diy mic outdoor enclosure
> To: 
> Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 12:04 PM
> At 11:42 AM -0800 11/27/09, Randy
> Perretta wrote:
> >
> >I picked up a few sheets of windscreen foam from
> Markertek and built
> >a wireframe box which works quite well. Holds a two
> ribbon blumlein
> >bar with a center shotgun...
>
> Hi Randy--
> In a test of mic arrays made by James Boyk at Caltech in
> 1988
> http://www.its.caltech.edu/~boyk/, he came to
> conclusion that he
> liked the stereo imaging of ribbon mics in a Blumlein pair
> the best.
> Do you happen to have a field recording made with a pair of
> ribbon
> mics that you can possibly share with us? :-)=A0 What
> model of Cascade
> mics? How do you typically use/mix-in your shotgun with
> this array? I
> see this may be your first post, if so, welcome to the
> list! Rob D.
> --
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via
> Bernie Krause
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
> =A0 =A0 
>
>
>









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