Lovely recordings Tom! Good to hear that the SASS suits you. Yes I
use mine on a tripod as well, and walk away. Those tiny capsules are
very sensitive. The waves were very realistic and the birds sounded
enviably tropical!
Vicki
On 26/08/2016, at 10:54 AM, [naturerecordists]
wrote:
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> To follow up on what gwapuffin wrote, I built a variation of Vicky's
> SASS using single EM172 caps. I think your PCM-M10 should have
> quieter preamps than the recorder I used for these (that's a good
> thing), but here are a couple of samples with that setup:
>
> Birdsong - Upper Waiakea Forest Reserve
>
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> Kua Bay Summer Waves
>
>
> Most of the stereo samples on that Soundcloud account were made
> using that setup. (There are two mono recordings using contact mics
> and one stereo made using an Olson Wing. Skip those.)
>
> All in all I'm pleased as punch with the SASS. It provides a nice
> compromise between a headphones-only binaural recording and a stereo
> recording that can be played through speakers. The stereo
> localization is strong enough to pick out individual birds, and the
> relatively bright sound of the EM172 capsules plays nicely with bird
> calls. 20/20 hindsight being what it is, I kind of wish I'd built it
> with a dual-capsule setup like Vicky did to help improve S/N.
>
> As far as using it goes, I really can't hand-hold microphones or
> even stand near them when I'm recording. So I'm biased toward
> mounting everything on a tripod or stand, starting things running,
> and walking away. So far this has worked really well.
>
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