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Re: home made SASS - field test

Subject: Re: home made SASS - field test
From: "Rick Munday" baumann1965
Date: Tue Oct 5, 2010 2:17 pm ((PDT))
Nice! How far are the mics apart?

I love how clear the wings flapping are as the one flies across and back
again (assuming it's the same bird).



On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Mark Brennan <>w=
rote:

>
>
> Hello all, over the weekend I made a home made SASS from wood, with plans
> that
> Rob Danielson had sent me. I made a couple of changes to the original pla=
n,
>
> first made the 'nose' longer and also tapered it inward towards the ends =
to
> the
> point where it was 2.5 inches at the end of the nose. I then filled the
> back
> with expanding foam and also all the crevices around the nose and the two
> AT4022
> mikes. The expanding foam was then cut away and taped in place with
> electrical
> tape. This is one ugly looking device! I have nicknamed it "The Nose"...
> Today I
> had a chance to field test it. Some of you may remember a family of
> Ravens I
> recorded in their nest. I found them feeding on something dead today.
> Here's the
> recording with the home made SASS into Fostec FR2LE.  If you click on the
> photo
> on the soundcloud 'track' you can see the 'nose'.
>
>
> http://soundcloud.com/wildearthvoices/raven-family-whitehill-5th-oct-2010=
-home-made-sass
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
>  Mark A. Brennan
> Canadian Landscape Painter
> www.markbrennanfineart.ca
> Nature Recordist
> http://wildearthvoices.org
>
>
>
>









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