I like to think of natural silence as the canvas upon which other sounds are painted. (Tim Mullet)
ABOUT ME
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
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
naturesound.it@gmail.com
Ortolan Bunting
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 MoreThe use of a Stereo Microphone in a 33 cm parabolic dish
To achieve a recording of a subject in its soundscape context (which represents the acoustic photograph of the environment we are investigating), we need to use a stereo recording, better if a wide focused parabolic stereo microphone system.By adopting the stereo configuration with the…
Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus “warm-up”!
Last morning I was looking for some call or song of migratory birds that in this season migrate through our latitudes, when I was attracted, in audio headphones, by the buzz of an insect, a particularly “annoying” buzz. I directed my Sennheiser ME66 half…
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