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I did have a little success last night with the wind chimes in low wind.
I had put flaps of masking tape on the support strings to see if I could get some extra movement in low wind conditions and it did result in a couple, seconds-long spans where they were both ringing. And it sounded great! You could hear one in the left ear and the other in the right.
Unfortunately, the damn dobermans a few yards away barked all through it.
At any rate, the more movement I can get in very low wind, the better.
However, the flaps are ugly, and the real solution is bigger sails. And after thinking about it, I realized I could use paper plates! Or perhaps styrofoam plates. So I'm gonna try that soon. Maybe even tonight.
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But I did learn from these wind chime experiments that the closer they are the better... because you have more signal above the noise, and the mikes will automatically enhance that.
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And this made me realize, it's been a mistake, the past couple years recording crickets, to have the S8 high up above the grass.
Really, if field crickets are what I want, then I need to have the S8 down in the grass where they're at.
That's how I used to do it with my cassette recorder back in the 1990s, and I did do it this way with the S8 in 2018... and got better results.
But I shied away from having the S8 down in the grass, because of crunchy bug, and other run-ins with unspecified mammals coming to sniff the device.
But that was when I was too lazy just to edit stuff like that out! For a long time, I held on to this idea that cricket recordings should be unadulterated. But the dobermans forced me to start editing.
So... now I'm thinking I need to get the S8 back down in the grass, in 2022.
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my tripod happens to have a hook coming off the bottom center, which will be perfect for hanging some kind of cradle, to hold the S8 just over the ground. I have some chicken wire down in the shop, so I picture using that, and maybe some twine, to make the cradle.
In that configuration I don't have to worry about some random yard-cutting kid stepping on the S8.
So... good lighting back there, we have that. Long grass, we'll have that. And then we suspend the S8 an inch or two off the ground in a cradle hanging from the tripod... and... given a decent brood of field crickets, and relatively dry conditions... I should be able to get what I'm after.
High signal field crickets.
And then, if I edit around the dogs and the crunchy bug, and apply different noise reduction profiles to tamp down the trains, cars, and fans... the resulting tracks should be better than ever!
Knock wood! Fingers crossed!
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I had put flaps of masking tape on the support strings to see if I could get some extra movement in low wind conditions and it did result in a couple, seconds-long spans where they were both ringing. And it sounded great! You could hear one in the left ear and the other in the right.
Unfortunately, the damn dobermans a few yards away barked all through it.
At any rate, the more movement I can get in very low wind, the better.
However, the flaps are ugly, and the real solution is bigger sails. And after thinking about it, I realized I could use paper plates! Or perhaps styrofoam plates. So I'm gonna try that soon. Maybe even tonight.
But I did learn from these wind chime experiments that the closer they are the better... because you have more signal above the noise, and the mikes will automatically enhance that.
And this made me realize, it's been a mistake, the past couple years recording crickets, to have the S8 high up above the grass.
Really, if field crickets are what I want, then I need to have the S8 down in the grass where they're at.
That's how I used to do it with my cassette recorder back in the 1990s, and I did do it this way with the S8 in 2018... and got better results.
But I shied away from having the S8 down in the grass, because of crunchy bug, and other run-ins with unspecified mammals coming to sniff the device.
But that was when I was too lazy just to edit stuff like that out! For a long time, I held on to this idea that cricket recordings should be unadulterated. But the dobermans forced me to start editing.
So... now I'm thinking I need to get the S8 back down in the grass, in 2022.
my tripod happens to have a hook coming off the bottom center, which will be perfect for hanging some kind of cradle, to hold the S8 just over the ground. I have some chicken wire down in the shop, so I picture using that, and maybe some twine, to make the cradle.
In that configuration I don't have to worry about some random yard-cutting kid stepping on the S8.
So... good lighting back there, we have that. Long grass, we'll have that. And then we suspend the S8 an inch or two off the ground in a cradle hanging from the tripod... and... given a decent brood of field crickets, and relatively dry conditions... I should be able to get what I'm after.
High signal field crickets.
And then, if I edit around the dogs and the crunchy bug, and apply different noise reduction profiles to tamp down the trains, cars, and fans... the resulting tracks should be better than ever!
Knock wood! Fingers crossed!
°¦}
