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Recommended Setup to record Tree Sounds
Question:
What would be your recommended Microphone / Interface Setup ?
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Hello everyone, i am curious about a technical setup to record Xylem tubes and water cavitating inside trees. the idea was ...
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Parabolic Microphones?
I'm doing some field recording but we're not able to get super close to what we're looking to record. I figured a parabolic mic might be the move, but they all seem really expensive, and our budget is ...
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How to avoid that cables get entangled in the field?
Does anybody have an advice to keep cables from entangling horribly during field recording?
I have the cable from the microphone and the cable from the headphones, both longer than I can handle with ...
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Recording parrots, would a Zoom H4N suffice?
I am working on my undergrad thesis with geographical variations on parrot vocalizations.I originally designed my study with Audiomoths because I had just gotten some. However, I now realized that ...
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What options are there for micro audio recorders?
I'm in the process of purchasing gear for this upcoming field season and am looking for audio recorder recommendations. I'm hoping to place ~30 small recorders in seabird rock crevices to record ...
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Song Meter vs AudioMoth PAM performance
I'm assembling a PAM field kit for the upcoming breeding season in the temperate rainforest ecoregion of Washington, USA, and would love to learn about your experiences with different ARU (Autonomous ...
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Recording of whitefly vibrations: "piezo" versus "low-noise microphone with subtrate-air diffusion"
Whiteflies communicate before and during mating through abdomen oscillations which vibrations are believed to propagate mostly in the leaf (~100-400 Hz). They are very low-energy signals which are ...
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Recommendations for external microphone for smartphone for casual recordings (birds, frogs, bats if possible?)
I would like to get a better microphone for my smartphone for recording wildlife around my home and when out camping. This question asked about very inexpensive accessories, but in this case, I am ...
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Pros and cons directional mic vs parabola
While searching through the bird song literature, I realized there are two schools for recording songs. Some people use a directional microphone and some people use a parabola.
I was wondering why to ...
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