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10. Re: SD 7 series recorders with / without an additional pre-amp

Subject: 10. Re: SD 7 series recorders with / without an additional pre-amp
From: "Peter Shute" pshute2
Date: Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:55 pm ((PDT))
I hadn't thought about reverberation, just changing the frequency response.=
 I wonder how bad it would be compared to mic noise. Not good, perhaps, or =
everyone would be doing it.

Peter Shute


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.com] On Behalf Of Jez
Sent: Friday, 20 April 2012 7:31 AM
To: 
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] SD 7 series recorders with / without an ad=
ditional pre-amp

Hi Peter,

yes - using contact mics & small mics to get very, very close to certain so=
unds is just another part of field recording. I don't see a divide & I don'=
t see one as reality & the other as not. Its all real.

mics in big ears: ha ! indeed, but then you'd have the effect imposed by th=
e shape of the ears (just as with our own actual ears). What you'd get is t=
he sound of the sound as it reverberates around the big ears !

--- In <naturerecordists%40yahoogrou=
ps.com>, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>
> Isn't amplifying the sound of a very quiet environment similar to devisin=
g methods of recording things like the sound of a snail moving, etc? Its ne=
ver going to sound like anything you could hear with just your ears, but it=
 might still be very interesting, pleasing, artistic, etc.
>
> Getting back to the topic of increasing gain without increasing mic noise=
, could anything be achieved by putting the mics in a set of oversized ears=
? Or would this do undesirable things to the sound?









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