I like to think of natural silence as the canvas upon which other sounds are painted. (Dr. Timothy C Mullet)
Earsight Stereo Mic’s Ball Setup
Reading Time: < 1 minute A few weeks ago, I bought a pair of Earsight microphones 48V XLR plugs. After testing them with the new Zoom F3, I found that, as it was logical to expect, the stereo separation with these two omnidirectional capsules was not great, despite having…
Field Cricket Vs. two-spotted cricket
Reading Time: 2 minutes First reports for the Two-Spotted Cricket in the North East of Italy date back to 2003 (see PDF file below). The first two groups of singing notes refer to Field Cricket, the last two groups refer to Two-Spotted Cricket.As you can see, in the…
similar songs but completely different animals
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Hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus “warm-up”!
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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…
Ringed Bush-cricket Grasshopper – Rhacocleis annulata – FIRST RECORD FOR NORTHERN ITALY
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here the recording of the grasshopper Ringed Bush-cricket, Rhacocleis annulata, first record for Northern Italy, which produces a call that is difficult to hear without the aid of a bat detector. The first ten phrases using a bat detector; the second ten phrases using a…
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…
Mole Cricket
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mole Cricket, song recorded using a Telinga Pro5 Twin Mono Song emitted from the burrow cavity recorded on 22 May 2002 using a parabolic microphone Telinga Twin Mono.It can be confused with the song of the Green toad, Bufotes viridisCanto emesso dalla cavità tana…
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