oh & about track 4 - all the fence wire tracks on that release were
recorded with my JrF c-series contact mics
http://hydrophones.blogspot.com/
<http://hydrophones.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/c-series-pro-contact-micropho\
nes-new.html>
our telephone wires in the UK don't sing anymore. not only because of
length between supports but because the design has changed. I have
recorded lots of long telephone wires in Estonia for example:
estonian strings <http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=3D7049>
ta.
--- In "Avocet" <> wrote:
>
> Jez,
>
> If you compromise your principles and try a transformer :-) you may
> work out what is happening. I found one on Amazon:
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0009GUOQA/
>
> > take a listen to tracks 2, 4 & 6 on this:
> >
> >
http://engravedglass.bandcamp.com/album/jez-riley-french-instamatic-snow\
donia
>
> Love track 4. You don't get long telephone wires on poles nowadays, at
> least not here, but this is similar. Which pickups did you use?
>
> David
>
> David Brinicombe
> North Devon, UK
> Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
>
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