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Recent content by Jon.Bryant

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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    6th June in Qinghai. Tibetan Babax - stopped the car to check a Grey-backed Shrike, and stumbled on 3 Tibetan Babax in the process. Perhaps a bit plain, but also with character and a bit sinister looking with their black scyth-like bill and white eyes.
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    4th June Przevalski's Partridge (or to be PC Rusty-necklaced Partridge) - a real brute of a Red-leg. Pale Rosefinch - a lovely subtle Rosefinch. Mind you we had to search far and wide to find any, then just like buses once there was one, there were suddenly 7. 5th June Tibetan Rosefinch (or...
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    A few more ticks in the Rubber Mountains and at Chaka in Qinghai. Tibetan Partridge - a real ‘Tigger-like’ partridge. White-browed Tit-warbler - in my opinion too few birds are lilac! Blanford’s Snowfinch - now only Afghan Snowfinch to go. Hmmm, not sure when I will be ticking that one!
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    From the first few days of a trip to Qinghai China (and an unexpected detour to Gansu) 30/5 Tibetan Snowcock. The bird was calling quite close but we just couldn’t find it, and it looked like it was going to be a ‘heard only’. Then there it was in the bins. What a great bird! Gansu Leaf...
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    Small (But Good?) Part 6

    Yes I did. The order was processed very quickly and the parabola arrived in less than a week. Import charges were a bit of a shock. Theses were levied by FedEx who paid the VAT prior to delivery and then billed me for 20% plus a flat rate admin fee.
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    DIY Stereo Field Dish Microphone (WIP)

    Just to throw another spanner in the works. I note that if you buy a stereo parabola, the mics are matched. All mics have a sensitivity of + or - so many dB. The HighSound I recently bought had a certificate to say that the mics were tested and had matching sensitivity. I think this means you...
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    Small (But Good?) Part 6

    33cm wide, 14cm high and 8cm deep. Obviously there will not be as much gain as a Telinga 45cm diameter dish (gain is proportional to area). This dish is a bit like a 33cm dish with the top and bottom cut off, so reducing the area even further!. Also it is not going to apply gain to very low...
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    Small (But Good?) Part 6

    Being a techno junky, I finally succumbed and bought the Dodotronics Hi Sound Compact parabola. The idea is to have a highly portable bit of kit, but with more ‘range’ than the MKE400 and Tentacle Track E, which is my ‘carry everywhere’ solution. First problem is that the High Sound Compact...
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    Camargue France

    Do you mean a local guide? The Camargue is very easy to bird by yourself if you have a rental car. If you can find a copy of ‘A Birdwatching Guide to South of the Loire including Corsica (J.Crozier)’, it covers the Camargue (and you can always checkout the maps with a look at Google Earth)...
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    32 bit float recorders

    I don't think things are not quite that simple. To use a poor analogy, we could consider that a mic is like a camera lens, where the sensitivity equate to the focal length and the directional performance of the mic, the field of view. In this analogy, gain could be considered to be like...
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    32 bit float recorders

    It is really hard to judge how ‘good’ recorders with built in mics will be. The bottom line is that most companies (including Tascam) are pretty quite in their specifications about mic sensitivity etc. Most devices are designed to record music or vocals from close to, so generally don’t have...
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    Tascam DR-07 & parabolic mic

    I don’t use the Tascam, but I would have thought that there are only a few things that could be wrong. Firstly, have you selected the input as an external mic? The manual is a bit sketchy, but it suggests that you press the menu button, then the + and - to select the Rec Settings to then set...
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    Zoom F3 and Sennheiser ME66

    Hi, For question 1 you should be able to select ‘mic’ as the input rather than ‘mic (+48v)’. So you have a choice… simple mic input and powering of the mic via the K6, or phantom power with no need for the K6 to provide power. Not sure what you mean for question 2. There is volume on the...
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    Recording noc-mig direct to laptop

    Are you looking to check the forecast and only deploy when suitable? A bumblebee cover will protect against some wind, but my main concern would be rain. I don’t think the EM272 foam or bumblebee covers really make the mic fully weatherproof. I have previously used the Wildlife Acoustics SM4...
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    Recording noc-mig direct to laptop

    Making things complicated, but the computer mic input must also provide Plug-in-Power - I am pretty sure that it will do this. PiP is not an absolute standard - I have recorders that provide 2.5V and others that can provide 5.0V. I believe that the standard allows voltages in the range of...
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