Gosh, what a monster gear, - if you can't buy a Telinga, please use a
plastic umbrella!
Klas
At 12:26 2011-05-13, you wrote:
>Hi Scratchpaws, It appears that you may have been put off using a
>parabolic dish. Contrary to popular belief, they are quite capable of
>making stereo recordings. If the purchase price seems a bit steep, then
>consider constructing one yourself for use with any microphone you have
>to hand. The dish does not have to be preformed, but can be sectional.
>Take a look at the bottom of my blog post here at
>http://audiofieldrecordings.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/field-recording-equ\
>ipment-used-with-audio-samples/
><http://audiofieldrecordings.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/field-recording-eq\
>uipment-used-with-audio-samples/> which illustrates a 31" dish I
>constructed from upvc sections. The audio demonstrates its ability in
>use, even when using a fairly cheap stereo lapel microphone simply
>clipped inside the dish at its focal point, so no spectacular recordings
>to be heard here.
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>A large parabolic dish will of course be difficult to handle in any sort
>of wind, so you would need to shelter from the wind-flow, but this would
>still be capable of concentrating the sound of the tree-tops from quite
>a long-long way off.
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>I also use a Sennheiser ME67 long shotgun mic, but they can sound a bit
>monotonous on their own, so would need mixing with other mics, unless of
>course you wish to record just specie-specific sounds.
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>Best of luck!
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>sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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