Mitch,
I visited Massachusetts last year and found the same difficulty in
locating a pristine recording spot. I did find this location in the
western end of the state - http://tinyurl.com/2cozevu
Still, I would recommend purchasing the best mics affordable for
anyone wishing to capture natural sound. You might find yourself
somewhere quiet some day and be able to capture the full effect of
your little paradise. Maybe you'll visit a cave. Maybe you'll visit
the Arctic National Wildlife refuge - http://tinyurl.com/45eevjh
Maybe you'll come join me for a recording expedition in Utah!
(Actually it can be tough, but not impossible, to find quiet places
here, too. But I know where alot of them are.)
Mitch, you are so dead on correct, finding a good recording location
that still has interesting sounds is a major part of our art and craft.
Kevin J Colver
Soundscapes for Birders - a Podcast of Natural Sounds
www.7Loons.com
On Feb 8, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Mitch Hill wrote:
> At 05:20 PM 2/8/2011 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >Actually, not. Quiet forest or desert ambiences show up the self-
> noise of
> >mics mercilessly. That's why Rob Danielson made a specification of
> 16dBA
> >or lower for mics suitable for quiet ambiences.
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> That may well be, however I'm in Eastern Massachusetts and there is
> no such
> thing as quiet locations of the order comparable to which you refer as
> quiet forest or desert ambiences... About the furthest you can get
> here
> from a heavily traveled highway or a shopping mall is somewhere in the
> order of 5 miles at best... And boats! forget it...
>
> How far do you have to travel and how often do you find yourself in
> such a
> quiet location of that magnitude?
>
> Again, I think "quiet" is more a local environment issue than
> anything to
> do with a microphone of the caliber of the ME66 with its 10db/A self
> noise
> figure... if one gains 3 dB of noise in the way the microphone is
> used, it
> is lost in the local background cacophony of urban life even at
> 3:00AM in
> the morning...
>
> However, when using the Olympus LS-11 with a ME66/K6, I have on more
> than
> one occasion run the run the recorder mic preamp at maximum gain and
> not
> had an issue with mic or equipment noise but those instances are
> very rare
> here due to the local ambient background noise...
>
> As the fellow said, "its about Location, location, location..."
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch & Shadow...
>
> http://www.4shared.com/dir/UTASxktL/wildlife.html
>
> Shadow's area: http://www.4shared.com/dir/ecfWjyZb/Shadow.html
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