I like to think of natural silence as the canvas upon which other sounds are painted. (Dr. Timothy C Mullet)
Juvenile MARSH WARBLER Subsong
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a subsong not so easy to record and particularly difficult to recognize: it is the song of a juvenile male of a Marsh Warbler, Acrocephalus palustris, about two months old, which already begins to emit its first singing phrases. In the last…
Nightingale – Nocturnal Song
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nightingale – Nocturnal Song(Listening with headphones is a must!)
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…
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
Reading Time: < 1 minute Camo dish with central vision slit
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…
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