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Re: Shotgun Mic, or Parabolic Reflector? Opinions, Please.

Subject: Re: Shotgun Mic, or Parabolic Reflector? Opinions, Please.
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Wed May 11, 2011 1:23 pm ((PDT))
A parabol is probably the only design which can do that, even if you
have to compensate for freq. response at replay.

Or... we have to ask to Bernie K:

Bernie, did you say about the MurieMike something like "this damned
Klas has made a microphone that records the true sounds of aspen leaves"?

Klas

At 16:30 2011-05-11, you wrote:
>I have a Sony PCM D50 Linear PCM Recorder.
>
>I want to record "clean" wind in the top branches of trees with as
>little ambient noise as "reasonably" possible.
>
>The on-board mics pick up too much ambient noise to give me the
>"specific rustle" of wind noise in the leaves at ground level,
>without the "general roar" of wind coming from everywhere around me.
>I'm thinking the tops of trees would offer the best of what I'm looking fo=
r.
>
>Does anyone have any input as to a good mic configuration for this?
>I assume either a shotgun or a parabolic reflector, however, words
>of wisdom from the gurus would be most appreciated before I go off
>spending a lot of money burning daylight to find a solution.
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
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>
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>sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
>
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