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Re: Great horned owls and coyotes with echos.

Subject: Re: Great horned owls and coyotes with echos.
From: "hartogj" hartogj
Date: Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:16 pm ((PDT))
Hi Rick,
All these nice wooden bowls and nothing to do with them... until now.

http://www.rockscallop.org/how/SASSy-bowl/jh-wooden-bowl-array-01.JPG
or
http://tinyurl.com/3yvr63z

Or could just make salad.

John Hartog


--- In  Rick Munday <> wrote:
>
> John,
> 
> 
> Wooden bowl? Do you have photos of this?
> 
> It tickled me because I was looking at a bowl in the dining room last night
> made from burled walnut and kept thinking about it being an "ear" for
> recording.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, hartogj <> wrote:
> >
> > Yes indeed. I cut apart a wooden bowl and reassembled it to approximate
> > SASS characteristics except less angle between mic axes and narrower front
> > to the nose piece. The resulting sculpture looks pretty freaky, almost as
> > freaky as that coyote reverb. My idea was that a curved surface to the
> > boundary plane may allow some of the surface to be oriented directly forward
> > while still maintaining some boundary effect out to 90 degrees, and maybe it
> > would create a natural transition to the rear. Rob's boundary mic group and
> > blog have been very helpful for examining the acoustical behavior of the
> > SASS design and coming up with "what if" ideas to apply to DIY versions. I
> > will soon be submitting localization test results and other information
> > about my array to the blog.
> >
> >
> 
> 
>








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