Comparing the mics

Last night we had a thunderstorm roll through with some halfway decent thunder production, and I grabbed the two wildlife microphones to do some recording and comparisons. This turned out to be a great test subject, because it demonstrated just how different the methods captured sound.

The first microphone is the newest addition, though I’ve had the main part for a while: a read more

Numbers game

Several days back, The Girlfriend found a potted blue lobelia for me, which I’ve been intending to get for a while, because they’re blue, and I mean, seriously blue – more blue than any flower I’ve seen, more blue than almost any thing I’ve seen. Note that this is not the US native great blue lobelia, or blue cardinal flower, but an African read more