Rabbits and rodents have to gnaw on things to keep their teeth from
curling around and growing into their wee brains. They especially love
expensive coaxial mic cables. When recording, always take a number of
thin metal stakes about 25 - 30 inches (63 - 76cm) long with a loop at
the top through which to thread your cables, thus keeping them off the
ground and inaccessible to critters.
Bernie
On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:29 PM, John Brenneman wrote:
> Hi fellow recordists. I camped and recorded last thursday and
> Friday in Pinnacles Natl. Monument in California.Here are 2
> recordings made with mics in the same location at 8:30 PM and 6:30
> AM the next morning in the Pinnacles campground beneath large Valley
> Oaks with a bog nearby.
> http://soundcloud.com/johnny-b-11/evening-in-pinnacles
> http://soundcloud.com/johnny-b-11/dawn-in-pinnacles-campground-4
>
> Unfortunately during the morning recording I lost the Right channel
> and only determined later that a rabbit had chewed most of the way
> through my mic cable. Mogami must be tasty. Has anyone out there
> experienced this problem? I hope it won't be a common occurrence.
>
> While hiking with my parabolic mic I chanced upon a Steller's Jay
> that was making vocalizations I've not heard before. It was foraging
> on a large sycamore down in narrow little Bear Creek gulch and
> sounding a bit thrasher-like. It went on and on and I recorded
> several 30+ second cuts . Here is a short take before logistics put
> too much stream and wind noise into the recordings. http://soundcloud.com=
/johnny-b-11/stellers-jay-pinnacles-4-20-12
>
> Hope all works well as I'm still learning about sharing recordings.
>
> best regards,
>
> John Brenneman
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> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
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