Name: MKH8020 - AmbeoVR by ebrunne
Duration: 4 min 10 s
Description: Sennheiser MKH8020 and Sennheiser AmbeoVR comparison

10 minutes by car from my house there three wind turbines on top af a hill. I’ve been planning to go there for a little while. Yesterday I had the opportunity to go and the weather was with me.
I wanted to listen to the towers using my LOM audio Geofon’s - and did so on track 1, 2 and 5. Track 3 and 6 are stereo recordings from right underneath the wings and track 4 is from a shed approximately halfway between the turbines…

3 Wind Turbines Geofon And Ambient Sound

Sennheiser MKH8020 and Sennheiser AmbeoVR comparison

MKH8020 - AmbeoVR

If you're looking for proper aircraft recordings, check out my WW2 sfx library: https://mindful-audio.com/#/ww2-aircraft/

T6 Texan aircraft taking off. I used the Sennheiser MKH416 microphone plugged into the Mixpre 6 with limiters enabled. You can clearly hear the limiters kick in when the signal reaches 0dB. 

I sent the unit to Sound Devices in Berlin as I thought it was faulty, but they sent it right back claiming it was "within parameters".

The file is exactly as I downloaded it from the SD card and downloads are enabled.

Sound Devices Mixpre 6 limiter test

Two Chuck Will's Widow birds sing a night time duet across the Cypress forest and sawgrass prairie of the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. Recorded in April 2019 with a pair of Line Audio CM3 cardioids in NOS stereo formation, Rycote BBG wind protection, and Sound Devices MixPre 3.

Nocturnal Swamp Widows

Finally the night begins to close as the first rays of light appear in the twilight sky. Most of the pod members have gone back to burrow and sleep, but a few individuals continue to try their hardest to attract a mate. Somewhere out there is the regilla for them.
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I love Pacific Chorus Frogs. Whether you know it as Pseudacris regilla (Pacific Chorus Frog) or Hyla regilla (Pacific Treefrog), its voice is instantly recognizable. Being so common along the West Coast, regilla, was the easiest source available for sound recordists to use in film and television. Along with the American Bullfrog, it quickly became the dominant sound of "frog" in film.

This little 1-inch frog makes its voice known. Coming out right around sunset, the first members of a pod tentatively cree-eek and ribbit their way until more come up from their overnight burrows to join. Soon, very soon, a full chorus begins and they roar to life as a deafening wall of amphibia for hours until the nighttime air cools below their comfort zone. As they slowly make their way back into their burrows, waves of chorusing come and go, finally petering out in the voices of just a few individuals just before dawn.

Recorded in over the night of April 21-22, 2019, in Sinlahekin Valley, a single pod chorus of frogs comes alive in this quiet land nearly devoid of human sound. I'd play the full recording for you, but that would be 10 hours long. Instead I'll present some of the highlights along the way.

For the technically nosy:
Microphones: yes
recorder: indeed

Chorus Frogs, Sparse, pre-Dawn, 2019-04-22

Daily (or nightly, as it were) life for regilla is dependent upon light, temperature, and energy. As the late night wanes, the pod loses steam. Temperature torpor sets in, individuals leave to hunt, and, well, probably get froggy-bored. The full chorus breaks first into successive waves that circle the pond and later into long-but-staccato sections that show signs of tapering away.
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I love Pacific Chorus Frogs. Whether you know it as Pseudacris regilla (Pacific Chorus Frog) or Hyla regilla (Pacific Treefrog), its voice is instantly recognizable. Being so common along the West Coast, regilla, was the easiest source available for sound recordists to use in film and television. Along with the American Bullfrog, it quickly became the dominant sound of "frog" in film.

This little 1-inch frog makes its voice known. Coming out right around sunset, the first members of a pod tentatively cree-eek and ribbit their way until more come up from their overnight burrows to join. Soon, very soon, a full chorus begins and they roar to life as a deafening wall of amphibia for hours until the nighttime air cools below their comfort zone. As they slowly make their way back into their burrows, waves of chorusing come and go, finally petering out in the voices of just a few individuals just before dawn.

Recorded in over the night of April 21-22, 2019, in Sinlahekin Valley, a single pod chorus of frogs comes alive in this quiet land nearly devoid of human sound. I'd play the full recording for you, but that would be 10 hours long. Instead I'll present some of the highlights along the way.

For the technically nosy:
Microphones: yes
recorder: indeed

Chorus Frogs, Chorus Waxes and Wanes, pre-morning-twilight, 2019-04-22

regilla are most familiar by the male "advertisement" call used to attract females, a distinct "Kree-eeck" or ribbit. It is their encounter call between two or more aggressive males that can be so delightful. A longer, single-syllable "reeeeeeeeeeek" or "creeeeeeeeeek" utterance that seems to vary strongly from individual to individual, this call is used to say, "Hey, buddy, give me some room."
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I love Pacific Chorus Frogs. Whether you know it as Pseudacris regilla (Pacific Chorus Frog) or Hyla regilla (Pacific Treefrog), its voice is instantly recognizable. Being so common along the West Coast, regilla, was the easiest source available for sound recordists to use in film and television. Along with the American Bullfrog, it quickly became the dominant sound of "frog" in film.

This little 1-inch frog makes its voice known. Coming out right around sunset, the first members of a pod tentatively cree-eek and ribbit their way until more come up from their overnight burrows to join. Soon, very soon, a full chorus begins and they roar to life as a deafening wall of amphibia for hours until the nighttime air cools below their comfort zone. As they slowly make their way back into their burrows, waves of chorusing come and go, finally petering out in the voices of just a few individuals just before dawn.

Recorded in over the night of April 21-22, 2019, in Sinlahekin Valley, a single pod chorus of frogs comes alive in this quiet land nearly devoid of human sound. I'd play the full recording for you, but that would be 10 hours long. Instead I'll present some of the highlights along the way.

For the technically nosy:
Microphones: yes
recorder: indeed

Chorus Frogs, Full Chorus, post-dusk, 2019-04-21

Coming out right around sunset, the first members of a pod tentatively cree-eek and ribbit their way until more come up from their overnight burrows to join. Pacific Chorus Frogs, despite their oft confusing alternate name Pacific Treefrog, lives in burrows and grasses in marshy wetlands. While some frogs may make their way into shrubs while hunting food, they are primarily ground and shallow-water dwellers.
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I love Pacific Chorus Frogs. Whether you know it as Pseudacris regilla (Pacific Chorus Frog) or Hyla regilla (Pacific Treefrog), its voice is instantly recognizable. Being so common along the West Coast, regilla, was the easiest source available for sound recordists to use in film and television. Along with the American Bullfrog, it quickly became the dominant sound of "frog" in film.

This little 1-inch frog makes its voice known. Coming out right around sunset, the first members of a pod tentatively cree-eek and ribbit their way until more come up from their overnight burrows to join. Soon, very soon, a full chorus begins and they roar to life as a deafening wall of amphibia for hours until the nighttime air cools below their comfort zone. As they slowly make their way back into their burrows, waves of chorusing come and go, finally petering out in the voices of just a few individuals just before dawn.

Recorded in over the night of April 21-22, 2019, in Sinlahekin Valley, a single pod chorus of frogs comes alive in this quiet land nearly devoid of human sound. I'd play the full recording for you, but that would be 10 hours long. Instead I'll present some of the highlights along the way.

For the technically nosy:
Microphones: yes
recorder: indeed

Chorus Frogs, Awaken, 2019-04-21

A lone hyena howling in Harenna forest on a very dark night. Recorded with unattended drop rig (Sony PCM D10 and Lom MikroUsi mics). Follow my field recording adventures in Ethiopia at https://youtu.be/PPSDChYuU2c

Harenna Hyena

Just before sunrise, a blackbird dominated the dawn chorus.  Recorded with a Superlux 524D into a Roland Duo Capture EX then into the iPhone.  The occasional machinery noise you can hear is an irrigation pump several km's in the distance.

MKH8020 - AmbeoVR

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