I like to think of natural silence as the canvas upon which other sounds are painted. (Dr. Timothy C Mullet)
ZOOM H1 + 25 cm Stereo Parabolic Microphone
Reading Time: < 1 minute Wren’s pre-migration song
Some interesting old recordings of mine recently rediscovered
Reading Time: < 1 minute Aquatic Rail, Rallus aquaticus, courtship interaction sounds between male and female – Palude del Busatello – Gazzo Veronese – Verona – Italy – 21 April 2000-Telinga Twin mono parabolic microphone – Minidisc Sony MZ-R50 Little Crake, Porzana parva, courtship interaction sounds between male and…
ORTF SPHERA 40mm AOM 5024 Vs. STRAIGHT MOUNTED AOM 5024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Inspired by Jules Ryckebusch’s Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17LaXpGKMN/I recorded at a Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) night roost here in Northern Italy, where I live. I used two ORTF systems built with PUI AOM5024 omnidirectional capsules: one system with the capsules inserted into two small 40…
Shotgun Microphones Vs. Parabola
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here a test at the limit of a reasonable sound pickup distance (about 40 meters) regarding a type of Robin call, the so-called repeated Tic call, to test the real difference between a sound pickup performed with a parabolic microphone versus two types of…
Luca Baghino in Tenerife using ZOOM F3 and stereo baffle
Reading Time: 6 minutes In January 2025, I was able to realize my dream of a holiday in Tenerife after meeting Rubén Barone, a friend and naturalist from Santa Cruz, whom I met in Genoa in 2019 and who invited me on a nature-focused visit. So, after the…
Glaucidium passerinum by Grégory Chamming’s
Reading Time: 2 minutes “I hadn’t been back to visit the tiny Golden-eyed Owl (who lives in the forest above my house) for 15 days already… So I put down a little microphone, after spending 2 hours with her, and the incessant comings and goings, male and female,…
XVIVE XV1r Vs. ZOOM H1e – H1n * only Plug In Power Mic IN TEST
Reading Time: 2 minutes * UPDATE – I finally ran the test for the onboard microphones as well. See the last two MP3 audio files with the recordings first as recorded, then Normalized to -3dB. See also the spectrogram image of the file normalized to -3dB for the…
Garden Warbler Vs. Blackcap Warbler songs
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is a wonderful recording by Grégory Chamming’s.It is a perfect recording both from a sound and educational point of view, as it directly compares the song of two species that are often confused with each other: Sylvia borin and Sylvia atricapilla. The recording…
BLACKBIRD SINGING IN THE WIND WITH AN APPROACHING STORM – Sound Devices 302+Roland R05 or ZOOM H1xlr
Reading Time: < 1 minute (WITH wind) SD302+R05 Hand held Parabolic Stereo Microphone – 2+2 AOM 5024 capsules. (WITHOUT wind) SD302+H1XLR Hand held Parabolic Stereo Microphone – 2+2 AOM 5024 capsules.
12.5 cm Parabolic Microphone & LS-P1
Reading Time: 2 minutes I tried to make a stereo parabolic microphone setup as compact as possible.I 3D printed a 12.5 cm dish with a focal point at 3 cm. I also printed a 6.5 cm diameter stereo baffle separator, inside which I placed two PUI AOM 5024…
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