Hi Curtis,
That is wonderful for you to want to seek out and improve the biophony
and geophony of the park you are education manager for. How
enlightened and I wish this would happen in Australia as well. We
seem to have no sense of what damage man-made noise can do to the
natural environment, and our own sense of well-being.
Taking Bernie's cue, I suggest you definitely record in STEREO. Set
up two mics on a tripod and walk away.
Tom in a reply email has given some good advice. I too recommend
EM172 mics as being cheap and reliable. On my own web page I have
made comparisons with EM172 electret mics, with more expensive mics,
in some cases you can hardly tell the difference.
I would suggest a home-made SASS style of head, or simply a block of
high density foam (yoga block) with mics either side. It needs to be
properly windshielded. Tom has given some good links, and see my web
site also, look under recording gear, lots of home made stuff there.
www.caperteebirder.com
good luck!
Vicki Powys
Australia
On 22/12/2016, at 1:49 AM,
[naturerecordists] wrote:
> Hi Everyone, I'm brand new here and brand new to nature recording. I
> am reading Bernie Krause's book and found this message board listed
> in the book. I currently work as Education Manager at a new, non-
> profit, semi-urban park in Louisville, KY. Since 2017 will be our
> first full year of park operations, I would like to begin recording
> in certain habitats to get baseline data on the geophony and
> biophony within the 4,000 acre park. One of our critical missions is
> to preserve and improve upon the habitats within our park and I
> think observing the change in natural sounds over time would be a
> neat project for the park and a neat thing to share with the almost
> 14,000 students we have come through our environmental education
> program. Habitats include riparian, forest, and meadow.My question
> is this: what recording equipment wou ld you recommend for the
> purpose described above? Also, what kind of equipment may serve the
> above purpose but be fairly inexpensive and easy to operate? We are
> a non-profit so money is tight. I need something that is inexpensive
> but will produce quality recordings.Thanks in advance! In the short
> time I have known about nature recording I have fallen in love with
> it!
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