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Re: the frustrations of engine noise

Subject: Re: the frustrations of engine noise
From: "Mitch Hill" wa1ykn
Date: Wed Jul 4, 2012 8:57 am ((PDT))
On 7/4/2012 8:39 AM, John Crockett wrote:
> Getting a second used ME66 is doable and worth considering if you think that 
> would help reduce noise from the sky.
>
>

Hi John,
I live on Cape Cod, on the border of a tree farm about 4 miles from 
Hyannis/Boardman Airport.  The tree farm is loaded with wildlife of all 
sorts and a great place to record but for the noise problem, especially 
airplane noise as planes landing at Hyannis/Boardman often come in right 
overhead.  I have found that a pair of ME66 microphones work quite well, 
not that they will reject the noise, they do somewhat however the noise 
level is so high they are not capable of reducing it more than about 6db 
which helps.  But what they do is give you a stronger sound level of 
your subject that you are recording relative to the noise level.  As you 
already have one ME66, yes, I would think getting a second would help 
increase the wanted sound to noise ratio.  I sometimes run 4 medium 
length shotgun mics phased such that the signals add giving higher 
forward gain in the center of the cone of acceptance...

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Mitch Hill

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