Between the mic tests earlier in March and this day (this was actually done as an actual project day, not just a mic-test) I returned both the Audio-Technica mic and the mixer… Yeah, the sound was cool - but it wasn’t worth the money I spent on the mic! In that time, I found a similar, much cheaper mic, similar characteristics that could be driven by a 1/8″ jack, so I could plug it into the camcorder and control the level that way instead of using a mixer… Awesome! The bad thing about that is… I didn’t have the mic at this point yet. So this particular edit isn’t the best audio-wise - I didn’t even wire up the computer mic at this point, because I didn’t really think there was a chance of getting anything interested in my food (I had the project inside since the last mic test, so at least a week or 2 have gone by since then — that makes quite a difference in interest among the “regulars” that visit the setup - now that it’s not a fixture in the yard, they’ve found other ways of getting food) but I was proven wrong! A squirrel came, came back and continued to come back to get all (or at least most) of the food out of the project! One problem with that though came at the end of the night… The squirrel kept coming, and I didn’t want to disturb it by walking outside and fotzing with the camera, so I didn’t change the exposure setting on the good camera - it gets much darker much earlier in the night because it had a neutral-density filter (it cuts the amount of light to the camera for bright daytime shots) on that it didn’t need - so the end of the clip is a little… dark-ish…

 

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