A mall without piped music?!
Edit: Oh wait, there it is. Normality has been restored.
Second Edit because I don’t want to spam: For those who enjoyed my Field Trips podcast, the “official” “best of” “album” has now been released because I can’t reasonably expect anyone to listen to 4+ hours of recordings of varying quality. https://mola-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/souvenirs
Great thread here, lots of info and ideas.
I was recently in Oslo and had the chance to check out a sound installation by Jana Winderen at Kunstnerneshus called Rising Tide.
30 channels of hydrophone recordings from various seas and oceans arranged into a beautiful composition, highly recommended if you’re in or around Oslo in the near future.
No experience with the microphone, but I am pretty certain it is made by Dodotronic.
Ive just picked up delivery of my LOM Usis. Very excited to up my field game a notch.
Im curious if people could recommend a “bar” which would help me prop them for recording with a tripod.
And if any one has suggestions on interesting methods of recording with them I’d be grateful.
It will certainly be useful in some situations, but don’t then be limited by the size of the bar - especially for more environmental stuff.
Hearing this made me re-think how wide a pair of omnis can go in the field:
Definitely won’t. But while i have access to only one tripod I’d like to have some kind of solution.
With the USI’s, I usually prefer a lightweight, compact solution. This is a Manfrotto pico clamp and two radio scanner antennas. The rig can adjust from a couple inches to about 30" separation.
I tend to either attach them to my person or surrounding environment, but if noone’s about I just sit there with them in my hands like I’m Buddha or something. I try to keep my kit as minimal as possible.
Greeeat idea. Thank you.
Yeah I think the recordings might mean even more to me if I get involved in that way.
Oh yeah id forgotten you posted that earlier. Love the devilmaycare approach. I would need to figure out how to attach the hanger to my unit tho…
I use a semi heavy-duty tripod clamp and it screws to the underside of the DR-40. Not sure if that would work for you though
Not shown in the photo, but I always carry a bunch of small velcro loops I use to secure the cables. if I ever get a moment of spare time, I’ll build a few custom cables with low-profile XLRs, and a single cable from the rig to my MixPre 6.
I just picked up a mikrousi pair from the recent batch. Can’t wait to try em out.
I didn’t get the wind bubbles, I have some lavelier wind protectors I was going to use, didn’t realize how small the capsules are though. Are you folks just jamming wind protectors over the entire mic+clip? Seems kind of fiddly.
I’ve also just got hold of a mikrousi pair (hi @Oootini), and as such:
I’m just wondering if anyone here has any experience with DIY jecklin disks or even dummy heads? Theres a little bit of talk about jecklin disks wayyyy back in this thread, but I’m interested specifically in how they fare in terms of closely recreating a listening experience (as the extravagant sennheiser dummy heads purport to do) and also how effective a DIY version could be. It seems as though it shouldn’t be difficult to create something that is functionally pretty close. I know many people just attach the mics to their headphones or some similar arrangement, and I will try this, but I’d also like to have something that I can place and leave for a while.
I think I was part of that previous talk of Jecklin disks and still say it’s a great way to go. I haven’t done a DIY one though or heard one but have to imagine it’s worth trying.
Another DIY option to look into could be the SASS build:
http://caperteebirder.com/?page_id=284
Early on, I had a Crown SASS mic and it was such a good system. As I got better mics I sold the Crown but that structure and the stereo imaging all helped me to get some of my favorite field recordings
I’ve used the Bruel & Kjaer binaural head & torso systems at work quite a bit, as well as the HEAD acoustics head. They are all using a generalized model of a human head – something could easily be DIY’d to get similar results. Their high cost comes into their instrumentation and the high degree of accuracy that comes from the foam ears. The pinnae effect adds quite a bit to accuracy, but it’s probably not needed for enthusiast activities. We were working on sound quality for automotive applications.
The head related transfer function of having the head there is probably the most important and easiest to do, after that the pinnae, after that the torso. I haven’t used them for general field recording, but in sound quality applications they give amazing results!
How does the uh, torso, come into the equation? I can’t picture its purpose, unless it’s for absorbing sound…?
