MONO-STEREO SETUP FOR PARABOLIC MICROPHONE

Reading Time: 2 minutes People often debate the use of mono or stereo microphones inside a parabolic dish. This I have already mentioned here.In summary: some prefer a mono recording for a “clean” use with spectrogram analysis, others prefer to obtain a stereo recording to have a pleasant…

Video and Audio Recordings

Reading Time: 2 minutes Here the well-known naturalist videomaker Marco Omodei Salé at work. He mainly works in the Dolomite environment, but does not disdain filming species of the plain, where he spends most of his days. At the link below we can see some wonderful videos he…

The use of a Stereo Microphone in a 33 cm parabolic dish

Reading Time: 3 minutes 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…

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.

Nightingales Duet song in a marshy environment

Reading Time: < 1 minute TETA – DIY Stereo Microphone – AOM 5024L capsules Nightingales Duet song in a marshy environment

Nightingales Duet song in a marshy environment

Reading Time: < 1 minute 4. TETA – DIY Stereo Microphone – AOM 5024L capsules Here a tested AOM 5024L microphone capsule. This capsule is comparable in size and sound performance to the most known and widespread Primo EM 172 (now EM 272). The AOL is more sensitive than the…

Summer night with Orthoptera

Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday’s night summer, before the thunderstorms expected for the next day (now regularly arrived!). The microphone used is a Do It Yourself “TETA Microphone”.Listening must be performed strictly on headphones, otherwise the whole description that follows loses its value.Excluding a couple of green frog…

Camouflage Parabolic Disc

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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…

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…