I too have used a large shinny parabola that I painted to camo. It was
much more effective at getting close to wildlife after I painted it.
Painting should have no effect and with an aluminum parabola it might
actually help to dampen some of the ringing from handling the thing.
I do believe that Randy Little has a large aluminum parabola that he
painted as well.
Wil Hershberger
Nature Images and Sounds, LLC
Hedgesville, WV
The Songs of Insects
My Blog
On Jan 24, 2010, at 2:25 AM, Kevin Colver wrote:
> I used a hard parabola for several years. By painting mine with full
> camo, I improved it's sound gathering ability by making it much less
> obtrusive to the wildlife.
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> I don't believe the paint will affect sound quality. Well, maybe the
> sounds will have a bit less sparkle? :)
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> Kevin
> On Jan 23, 2010, at 8:05 PM, stancourtney wrote:
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>> I have a shiny aluminum 24" parabolic reflector and I was wondering
>> if it would affect it's sound gathering ability to have it painted?
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Stan Courtney_Central Illinois
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