Parabolic Microphone
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This dollar store DIY spy mic lets you listen from afar.
From the column DIY: Spy
By Jim Lee
Photos by Jim Lee
- The original two-channel recording,Parabolic on left, Unmodified mic on right
- The Parabolic channel (left) isolated,normalizedto-16db
- The Unmodified mic channel (right) isolated, normalized to-16db
- A file containing unmodified and parabolic recordings in sequence. First the squirrel, then the cardinal.
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