Stereo OR MONO microphone in Parabola?

Reading Time: 6 minutes Which type of microphone inside the parabolic dish: Stereo, Mono, or Twin Mono? As already stated by Wahlström (Sten Wahlström, Swedish Radio, Karlstad, Sweden, JAES Volume 33 Issue 6 pp. 418-429; June 1985), acquire a stereo effect using a parabolic microphone system is possible,…

Hippolais icterina

Reading Time: < 1 minute 11 May 2019 – recorded with double PZM microphone with 2+2 EM 172 capsules Primo microphone in parabolic dish 53 cm, Roland R05 recorder; slight wind in the leaves of a oak where the subject was singing up in the canopy. In this season…

Blackcap and Great Tit

Reading Time: < 1 minute Blackcap and Great Tit, Singing at Dawn – Sony PCM D50 ME66 Matched Pair Microphnones There is a noticeable Hiss with the two Sennheiser ME66’s 1.5 Volt battery powered. Unfortunately, at least with my two ME66’s, the Hiss exists, probably due to a problem…

Analog Tape Recording Vs. Digital Recording

Reading Time: < 1 minute This recording clearly highlights the problem of the background noise caused by the magnetic tape hiss, completely solved with the advent of digital recording. From 2’07” begins the digital stereo recording performed using an Olympus LS5 and Parabola HiSound stereo with a disc of…

Lessinia Soundscape

Reading Time: < 1 minute This entry has been awarded runner up in the Habitat class of the 2012 WSRS Wildlife Sound Recording Society sound competition.This is a file that I recorded on May 28, 2012 in Italy, in the mountains near Verona, Lessinia, at 1400 meters above sea…

TETA Microphone

Reading Time: 2 minutes Test with a song of Blackcap, for a new stereo microphone system called “TETA”, that allows reception of the stereophonic image to cover fully 360-degree soundscape, a degree that can be varied by rotating the microphone heads to obtain a classic ORTF front stereo…