Recording sounds

Yotarunner

Yotarunner

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Sitting in my tractor listening to podcasts today and just happened to land on a few interviewing folks who record and market sounds for sale.
What's stirring around in my brain is does anyone know what type of recording devices are used to record coyote sounds?
I have an area right next to home that if a guy could setup a recorder to record for even a few hours a night could possibly get some cool serenade and food fight sounds.
For now we will pretend that editing skills and software as well as background noise are not an issue šŸ˜‚
 
I always made jokes about the guy who makes the rabbits scream. He turns on the recorder and then starts torturing a rabbit. I'm sure that's not actually how it happens, right?

Nobody is tearing rabbits apart with their bare hands for our coyote sounds, right? Guys?
 
I've recorded plenty of jackrabbits. No, I didn't have to torture them. The ones that wanted to be a star, all I had to do was shake the net they were in. A guy I used to know, who has long since passed away, recorded a lot of sounds for Johnny Stewart back in the day. He told me about the shake the net method.

Back in the day, I used a good Sennheiser mic attached to my video camera which recorded in higher quality than the callers of the day were capable of reproducing. I think callers are just now catching up. So I'd think just about any digital recorder would be fine. Later, Foxpro gave me a hi res digital recorder. I bet one of those is pretty cheap these days. But the microphone makes more difference than the recorder. If you are going to spend any money on it, spend it on the microphone. I always used shotgun mics, because that's what I had, for video making. I'm not sure that is necessarily the best choice for recording calling sounds? The ones I recorded have called in thousand upon thousands of coyotes though. About two thousand by myself. Can't even guess at how many more thousands on the many, many Foxpros that had those sounds on them.

Coyote sounds... Eh... If you aren't right there with them, I'm not sure it's worth the bother compared to just downloading coyote sounds like the ones MFK records.

- DAA
 
DAA said:
I've recorded plenty of jackrabbits. No, I didn't have to torture them. The ones that wanted to be a star, all I had to do was shake the net they were in. A guy I used to know, who has long since passed away, recorded a lot of sounds for Johnny Stewart back in the day. He told me about the shake the net method.

Back in the day, I used a good Sennheiser mic attached to my video camera which recorded in higher quality than the callers of the day were capable of reproducing. I think callers are just now catching up. So I'd think just about any digital recorder would be fine. Later, Foxpro gave me a hi res digital recorder. I bet one of those is pretty cheap these days. But the microphone makes more difference than the recorder. If you are going to spend any money on it, spend it on the microphone. I always used shotgun mics, because that's what I had, for video making. I'm not sure that is necessarily the best choice for recording calling sounds? The ones I recorded have called in thousand upon thousands of coyotes though. About two thousand by myself. Can't even guess at how many more thousands on the many, many Foxpros that had those sounds on them.

Coyote sounds... Eh... If you aren't right there with them, I'm not sure it's worth the bother compared to just downloading coyote sounds like the ones MFK records.

- DAA
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That's probably what I assumed a rabbit torturer would say. šŸ¤£šŸ¤£
 
I have recorded a few sounds here and there and a decent digital recorder will do it with a good mic like Dave says. You can clean them up and edit them with an online program like Audacity or any number of similar sites.
Getting good coyote vocals etc is going to require some pet coyotes or coyotes you have access to in some way. Back in the day I had a pair and recorded lots of sounds off of them. Had a little bobcat as well and have some sounds that have slayed a lot of cats over the years from him. I will say do not discount normal puppy dog sounds or house cat/kitten soundsā€¦. Things you would take for grantedā€¦. they work. I am always surprised that more people have not gotten in to this. Itā€™s always seemed like a profitable thing to me?
Just my dos centavos.
 
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