Hi Klaus,
I suppose "fetch" might mean something different to a species recordist tha=
n to a soundscape recordist. A gun mic might be great for fetching the sou=
nd of a single bird, while a SASS might be great for fetching the sounds of=
a grove of trees. Whether amplification is done by attenuating everything =
else or by adding gain the result is the same - it sounds closer. I still t=
hink microphone self-noise is a factor because it effects the resolution of=
sound and I think we expect closer sounds to have better resolution.
John
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> When David wrote "fetch", it became "reach out" in my mind, or
> "looking out", which has not so much with self noise to do, just as
> he says. Reach out, or look out, is to me more like what the SASS and
> other binaural mic's are doing. Another way that I use to describe
> it, is "acoustical presence filter", as such a mic sort of recreates
> "as it sounds over there".
>
> I have never found a good word for what directional mic's like 816's
> are doing, except "attenuating surrounding sounds". They are
> certainly not supposed to "recreate" anything "over there"
> but rather diminish what is around. A totally obvious use of
> directional mic's, and what they originally was made for, is killing
> room acoustics.
>
> Klas
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