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Wildtronics, LLC shares demo and informative videos of their products and techniques here.
How to Use a Parabolic Microphone
A basic instructional video of how to use a parabolic microphone. How to find a subject, get better subject isolation, reduce noise sources, and basic recorder settings. The video is specifically for using Wildtronics Parabolic Microphones.
Please note: 2 microphones were used in producing this video. A parabolic microphone and a lavalier microphone (for dialog pickup). Both microphones were connected to the camera via wireless transmitters into one mono track. This is a demo of using a parabolic microphone not direct samples from the parabolic microphone. The dialog mic picks up surrounding sounds which should not be confused as coming from the parabolic microphone.
Please note: 2 microphones were used in producing this video. A parabolic microphone and a lavalier microphone (for dialog pickup). Both microphones were connected to the camera via wireless transmitters into one mono track. This is a demo of using a parabolic microphone not direct samples from the parabolic microphone. The dialog mic picks up surrounding sounds which should not be confused as coming from the parabolic microphone.
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Installing a Dampening Ring on a Wildtronics Parabolic Dish
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Video instructions on installing a Dampening Ring onto a Wildtronics parabolic reflector. The Dampening Ring greatly reduces the pinging and ringing of the Feather Light dish when hit with raindrops, flying bugs, and accidental hits.
Installing a Wildtronics Mini Accessory Bar Kit
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A video instruction on how to install and use a Mini Accessory Bar Kit to your Wildtronics Parabolic Microphone. The Mini Bar allows you to mount small recorders directly to the handle and makes a great run-and-gun parabolic microphone setup as you won't need a cable from the microphone to your recorder in your shoulder bag. The Mini Accessory Bar Kit will fit the Wildtronics Pro Mini Parabolic...
Installing the Secondary Windscreen on a Wildtronics Pro Series Parabolic Microphone.
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Video instructions on how to install the Secondary Windscreen on a Wildtronics Pro Mono, Pro Mono-Stereo Parabolic Microphone.
Wildtronics Pro Series Parabolic Microphone Assembly
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A brief video instruction on how to assemble a Wildtronics Pro Series Parabolic Microphone. How to assemble the microphone and handle to the parabolic dish. It is easy and takes under a minute to assemble and disassemble.
How to Improve Your Bird Video Audio Quality
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A short tutorial on how to use a Mini Parabolic Microphone to improve the audio quality of bird videos. The Mini Parabolic Microphone can dramatically improve the gain and subject isolation of birds. Samples of the results follow the tutorial. Recorded with the microphone directly connected to the camera body. Recorded with very low gain on the camera, then the volume was normalized to -1dB in ...
How to film Frogs and use a small Parabolic Microphone Part 2
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A short tutorial on how to use a Mini Parabolic Microphone to capture the audio while filming Bull Frogs. In part 2, we will discuss using a small parabolic microphone to pick up the low-frequency sounds of Bull Frogs, dispelling the belief that parabolic microphones are useless for low frequencies. This highlights the versatility of the Pro Mini Parabolic Microphone and that there are no disad...
How to Film Frogs and Use a Parabolic Microphone to Capture the Sounds.
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A short tutorial on how to use a Mini Parabolic Microphone to capture the audio while filming frogs. Samples of the results follow the tutorial. This is part of a series of tutorials by Wildtronics about recording wildlife and the combination of filming/recording. Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can see more tips and techniques. Watch all our tutorials to become an expert in sound re...
Microphone Comparison - Shotgun versus 3 Parabolic Microphones
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Comparing the range and subject isolation between directional microphones. A long shotgun mic, a small parabolic mic, and two full size parabolic microphones. The subjects are birds. Hear the difference between how each microphone is able to pick up the bird, and isolate it from other background sounds.
Sproul State Forest Pennsylvania Dawn Chorus
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Enjoy this audio of a dawn morning bird chorus in the Allegheny Plateau of the Northern Pennsylvania. Recorded from darkness to the first light rays reaching the forest. Whippoorwills dominate the early chorus and gradually other birds start singing. Play at your normal volume settings. This is a rather quiet chorus with some louder, closer birds. The audio levels have already been adjusted for...
Parabolic Microphone Comparison Tests
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Comparing birds recorded with a shotgun microphone, a small parabolic microphone, and a large parabolic microphone. This is a great chance to hear the difference a parabolic microphone makes against a very good, low noise shotgun microphone. The gain had to be cranked so much on the shotgun mic, that mic noise became apparent.
Brown Thrasher 60 feet Pro Mini Parabolic
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Wildtronics Pro Mini Parabolic using a Wildtronics Micro Mic PIP directly connected to a DSLR camera that is using an 1100mm lens. The Brown Thrasher is 60 feet away. Clean, clear audio is possible by using the Pro Mini Parabolic Kit that can attach directly to a hot shoe mount on a camera with a simple adapter.
Stereo Ambient Array Microphone Overview
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An overview of the advanced Stereo Ambient Array Microphone (SAAM) from Wildtronics. The low noise, stereo microphone has superior stereo perception, and has preamps and more built-in to allow connection to almost any audio recording device.
Song Sparrow 20 feet
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Song Sparrow captured with a Wildtronics Pro Mini Parabolic in combination with a Audio Technica AT4022 mounted on the camera using somewhere around a 600mm lens.
Song Sparrow 50 ft
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A Song Sparrow from 50 feet recorded with a Wildtronics Pro Mono Parabolic Microphone, an external recorder, and a dslr camera with a long telephoto lens. Record clear, natural sounds of distant subjects with parabolic microphones from Wildtronics.
Red-winged Blackbird 100ft, Wildtronics Parabolic Microphone
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Red-winged Blackbird 100ft, Wildtronics Parabolic Microphone
Wildtronics Pro Parabolic Microphone Demo
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Wildtronics Pro Parabolic Microphone Demo
Elk recorded with a Stereo Parabolic Microphone
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Elk recorded with a Stereo Parabolic Microphone
excellent comparison, thx 🙂👍
Is this the mono version?
Yes, this was recorded with the Wildtronics Pro Mono Parabolic Microphone
What I am interested in is its range capabilities. Can I record a conversation that's being held in low tones from 100 ft away? 200? How accurate is it? I personally don't care about quality. If there's two people talking on the sidewalk and I can record their conversation from 400 ft away I don't care if it sounds screwed up as long as I can hear it. Can a mic do that? Which mic? Ty. I'm trying to separate reality from TV regarding long distance recording . Again ty.
It depends on the general noise in the area. We have sound samples of voice pickup on the Media page on our website. You need the largest parabola to start to have gain in the voice frequencies. Here is what we say in our FAQ: We don't specify a single range as it is highly dependent on the volume of the subject, the surrounding noise, and the frequency of the subject. You can listen to our many audio samples with listed distances to get a better idea. Birds would have much higher gain and range compared to human subjects. For human subjects, since we get this question a lot, a good rule of thumb is: If you can hear that someone is talking and can't understand what they are saying, then a Wildtronics Pro Parabolic Microphone will allow you to clearly understand what they are saying at that distance. If you only see their lips moving and can't hear anything, that is too far away. This rule of thumb will work from quiet country settings to crowed rooms. Range can vary from hundreds of yards, in a quiet area, down to just 20 feet at a noisy event.
@@WildtronicsLLC thank you for your response. I appreciate it. Another way is little tiny drones equiped with a mic and transmitter.
so a shotgun/lobar mic is a mini parabolic mic with short comings and "holes" in what it focuses on. and other mics are just cardio mics with external parabola.. but all microphones are Transducers inside a certain acoustically shaped housing?
Please read our article on parabolic microphones: www.wildtronics.com/parabolicarticle.html.
Really insightful video!
Glad you think so!
Hoping to get one of the mono-stereo models soon as I plan to go on international field recording trips more frequently in the future. Just came back from a trip to Zimbabwe and really wish I would've already been able to bring one. Would you say the ultralight dish is safe to store for the duration of a 10+ hour flight?
In general, the Feather Light dish can be kept rolled for up to 48 hours. The larger diameter the roll size the better.
The level quality of sharpness on bird videography you made is outstanding :) Most challenge I found from your share is find a song bird in singing :D
Cool, thanks!
Which microphone did you use with the Pro Mono? I'm on their website now and I see they have several options...?
The Pro Mono has an integrated microphone included. The options would be Amplified, for direct line/headphone output and the Mono-Stereo that adds stereo microphones outside the parabolic reflector. The Pro Mono without options has 3.5mm and XLR outputs.
It sounds very much as if the recorder is set to automatic gain control. When the bird isn't singing, the noise goes up and up. Then as soon as the bird starts singing again, the noise suddenly drops dramatically. This is not good recording practice imo.
No. We never use automatic gain control in the recorder. All samples on here had numeric gain applied in post editing so that the peak of each sample was equal. No noise reduction was used. You may be noticing psychoacoustical noise masking which is the brain's way of masking apparent noise during periods of higher signal content.
This is one of my favorite sounds. It makes me sleepy. These guys have been singing me to sleep every spring as long as I can remember.
nice! found banshee quick.
So which one is the best u recommend sir?
Either the Pro Mono or Pro Mono-Stereo in either the Amplified or unamplified version work very well for recording. If you absolutely need an on-camera microphone, the Pro Mini can work well, better than any shotgun microphone.
What about wind protection - is it possible, and if so, easy or difficult, to wind protect the parabolic mics?
We offer Secondary Windscreens for our Pro Series Parabolic Microphones. They provide protection for up to 20MPH winds. It should be pointed out that since parabolic microphones are used to capture subjects from longer distances, you will want to record in lower winds so that wind generated noise from leaves and other objects don't interfere with the subject you are capturing. Also, anything over 20MPH and it will become difficult to hold a 22 inch dish.
really heplful and interesting,thank you
Is there a sound difference between the featherlight dish and the standard clear one?
There is no difference in the sound picked up from either dish.
What's the smallest dish you can use to still capture decent low frequencies?
Our Pro Mini's 11 inch dish gain starts at 400Hz, the larger 22 inch dish gain starts at 200Hz. Both of them have a pretty even 6dB of gain boost per octave. Parabolic reflectors have increasing gain as the frequency increases. The 22 inch dish has 12dB of gain by 1KHz. You can boost the lower frequencies in post editing.
Wow, the pro mono is so quiet, I would want to also record 'room tone' of the area to blend. Just the single bird in isolation would make for an unnatural production. Being able to blend in post is of course way better than trying to eliminate unwanted background sound. I would classify all of these as affordable, less than I was expecting. The shotgun more versatile for my purposes, but I would like the parabolic if I was more serious about recording wild like etc. Great presentation. - Cheers
My family has these in our pond in our front yard.
I play this every night when I go out for a pipe hoping to lure a toad so my toad isn’t so lonely.
Put in in 2x speed it sounds like some one screaming 😨
Can you only hear bird? Or Are you also able to hear people as well???
Sure, human voices and other lower frequency sounds can be picked up as well, just not as far away as parabolic reflectors have increased gain as the frequency increases. We have many sound samples and tests on our website.
Toads Are my Favorite!
What am i hearing in the back ground of the samples? Red wing black bird its easier to hear.
There is a creek nearby to this location.
Thanks for that comparison! Very interesting
Thanks.
Great for birders!!!
I can really tell the improvement in directionality in the Oriole audio. I can barely hear the Mourning dove with the Pro Mono.
I remember catching these frogs as a kid and I still do
Thanks for this video!!! You helped me identify the sounds I've been hearing. Our first spring in this house and I'm used to peepers BUT have never heard these!! Quite beautiful and oddly peaceful
I noticed the pro mono reduces the echo quite a bit. This may or may not be desirable however it is definitely indicative of the strong selectivity of the instrument. Amazing.
We played this for our pet America toad. He joined in.. just to clarify, our toad is a rescue. We found him 2 years ago and his front legs were severely deformed. A herpetologist friend of ours helped us nurse him back to health. Problem is he became so tamed that our friend told us she would not survive in the wild. So he has a large pen in the south window of our den and spoiled he is.
Yea, but is it 100% polycarbonate?
The clear dishes are 100% polycarbonate. The black dish is ABS plastic.
I would love an 8 hour video of American Toad mating calls. Their songs lull me to sleep every spring
They just started calling outside in the woods! Really loud little guyz!
Thank you. This is a great test comparison
You are welcome!
@@WildtronicsLLC what tripod/accesories did you use to set up all 4 mics standing like that?
@@wcsdiaries Oh, the mount was made from a 3/4x1/4 aluminum bar stock, with mods to fit all the mics. Tripod used here was an old aluminum tripod. Nothing too special. It just needed to hold all the mics pointed at the same target.
Can you use any of the parabolic microphone with a cellphone ?
You can, with an adapter we sell for $4, use our Pro Mono or Amplified Pro Mono Parabolic Microphone with a smart phone. You are better off using a dedicated audio recorder. Smart phones have a much more limited input and features compared to a dedicated recorder. Some inexpensive recorders, such as a Tascam DR-05x can work quite well, especially with our Amplified models.
Beautiful haunting sounds ! Bravo !
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@WildtronicsLLC how large is this dish? 26 inches?
Hi there! And what is the name of the plastic from which the parabola is made, is it harmful, toxic?
The clear dishes are made from 100% polycarbonate and it is not known to be a toxic material.
Thanks for posting.
You're welcome
Thanks so much for this, I almost made a mistake shelling out for an overpriced shotgun! I think I need me a pro mono/stereo. I would oove to hear a diff between the pro M/S and the SAAM.
This got my dogs instant attention lol
I use this video to lure out other frogs and toads that get into my garage. Works like a charm.
Kate Reeley why into the garage? Lol
Oops I thought it said lure them INTO the garage! Haha
Great video! Very professional and well done!
I dont know anything about sounds but this is cool
what recoder do you use ?
I used a Tascam DR-701D during this test.
thank you @@WildtronicsLLC
Wow, amazing! Thanks be to God!
Start @ 2:33 for the Samples
it's the first time i listen to large parabole. the pro mono is amazing
Really cool. Thx for taking the time to make this video!
Such amazing creatures, I like God's style!
Thank you for this stunningly beautiful recording. I'm amazed at the underlying quiet that you found. It's the hardest thing to find anymore. Peace.