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Re: the frustrations of engine noise

Subject: Re: the frustrations of engine noise
From: "Wil Hershberger" wil_hershberger
Date: Wed Jul 4, 2012 9:20 am ((PDT))
Perhaps the Americas should institute noise abatement measures similar to those 
being proposed and instituted in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and FInland.
How far do you think we would get with that?

Wil Hershberger
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Hedgesville, WV
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On Jul 4, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Mitch Hill wrote:

> 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...
> 
> -- 
> --
> Mitch Hill
> 
> (Sent from HP DV6T)
> 
> 










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