I like to think of natural silence as the canvas upon which other sounds are painted. (Tim Mullet)
ABOUT ME
Reading Time: < 1 minute My name is Marco Pesente, I live in the province of Verona (North-Est Italy). From the late 1970s I delighted in obtaining audio recordings of all beings that in nature emits songs, calls and noises, with particular regard to the bird songs, but also…
Mission
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is not meant to be an exhaustive website on the recording of “sounds” that can be “captured” in nature, there are already dozens of excellent sites where the various audio recording techniques are reported more or less in-depth.The purpose I set for myself…
CONTACTS
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Ortolan Bunting
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ortolan bunting song. Recorded using a mid MONO parabolic microphone – 2 x Primo EM172 caps and a 33 cm dish.Filmed with a Sony Nex6 + adapter and a Lens Nikon 400 IF-ED 5,6. Special thanks to Gastone Pivatelli.
Learn MoreRode NT1a ORTF Vs. Audio Technica AT3032 in SASS
Reading Time: < 1 minute Below a comparison between two recordings made simultaneously using two Marantz PMD660 recorders.This is an evening roost choir, consisting mainly of about 200 Western Cattle Egret, with also the calls of European Robin, Blackbird and Magpie (At 1:15 a car passes on the back…
My Favorite Portable Field Recordes Over the Years
Reading Time: 2 minutes top left: Analog Cassette recorder WM-D6C – top right: MiniDisc Digital recorder MZ-R50bottom left: DAT Digital Audio Tape recorder TCD-D3 – bottom right: Digital Audio recorder PCM-M10 Storage media used by the above recorders During about forty years of recording, I have used various…
MY FIRST PARABOLIC MICROPHONE SYSTEM!
Reading Time: 2 minutes This was my first parabolic microphone system: a 53 cm Rochè fiberglass dish that I bought directly from Jean Claude Rochè‘s Oiseaus Musicien (now Sittelle) in the early 1980s.The parabolic dish is quite heavy when compared to the current polycarbonate and PetG dishes. I…