Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

Oh you got me curious now Frogman.

So the bullfrogs where we are sound most like the Double Bass instrument to me, and are in A. But at what octave ?

Here is an interesting link for the Double bass.

Double Bass Frequency chart

We can see for A - the lowest octave is 27.5 hz. But our bullfrogs play at a higher octave. As octaves go up the frequency doubles.

So I played around on the computer this morning. The bull frogs are really close to this note.

Push the A Piano key

I then did an internet search sampling bass Hz on the internet.

110 HZ

Damn - aren't they at 110 hz !

Now here is the crazy gear aspect of this.

My Lenovo laptop built in speakers CAN'T play this note. It can only be heard (110 hz) with my old pair of full size headphones plugged into the Lenovo laptop.

ok... I need to be careful here. If my wife catches me having this much fun she will give me another PRA-ject to do.

Excellent analysis of the sound of your bullfrogs, Chris; worthy of a side bar in The Absolute Frog magazine. Or, should it be Fraaag? Interesting how yours sound so different than mine do. And amazing how such a small creature can produce such low frequencies. There may be a lesson in there (dissection?) for the Totem design team. My bullfrogs sound like this (go to the last of the five audio samples) and notice the similarity to the "twang" of the Brazilian percussion instrument in my previous clip.

http://soundbible.com/tags-bullfrog.html

BTW, if this is part of what retirement has to offer, I'm there! :-)

Interesting how yours sound so different than mine do

Frogman I shot a short video (it was dark - 3:00am) with my phone and the sounds were the same as the last two clips in your links. 1) Frog croaking and 2) Bull frog. But the phone and my laptop as I mentioned earlier are limited in what they can achieve.

Just a thought
I have taken the same audio gear right down to the cables and placed into multiple rooms. This included different locations. building types even on different power grids. This was done due to job travel, moving to a different house, ...
The resulting music was always different and most noticeable to me in the bass (waves) and how they interacted with the room volume, materials, etc...
So, if we take two same frogs and relocate to two very different areas. Maybe one is placed in a marshy type environment with long grasses that help filter. The other near a smooth lake surrounded by hills. I think the two frogs will sound different to someone that is at least some distance away; so that he/she is able to hear the influence to the sound from the immediate surrounding area?

Is this influence/effect not known as "the Room" - in this Audio Hobby of ours ?

But if you put a microphone up close to a frog (before the surrounding area can influence their sound. They should sound the same, no ?

btw - I always have a problem with the use of effect and affect. :^(

Seems everyone wants to discuss component gear all the time on these forums. The Room aspect is rarely discussed it seems to me. I feel it deserves its own Audio category.

I am back up north again. I have title to a piece of property here and pay property taxes. But while I am here I have always felt a visitor to the wild life that surrounds me. It is their place so I just try to fit in.

****while I am here I have always felt a visitor to the wild life that surrounds me. It is their place so I just try to fit in. ****

Thought about your comment yesterday. We stocked our pond with trout at the beginning of the summer, thinking that the bullfrogs could use some company :-) They are (were?) fairly mature fish at about 8-10 in. Well, over the course of the summer it appeared that we had fewer and fewer fish in the pond. We weren't sure since its a fairly large pond and quite deep. Our dog had earlier been very interested in a spot near the pond where I found a tail fin; "fee-fi-fo-fum". Well, yesterday, as I sat on my porch swigging Moosehead Ale (really) and listened to Brahms' Fourth I witnessed an extraordinary sight. As I looked out over the pond a Great Blue Herron came swooping down from the trees, dove into the pond and snagged one of my Rainbows. Beautiful creature and much larger than I imagined, never having seen one up close. What made me think of your comment is the fact that I had never seen one near my property, but only some distance away where there is a large lake. I have no problem providing a $4 lunch to a Herron and the sight of it was more than worth it, but makes me wonder just how well I am "fitting in".

Wow...Gourmet "farm raised" ? trout for lunch.

Me thinks, he (Blue Herron) thinks, you fit in really well Frogman :^)

Frogman - I have no problem providing a $4 lunch to a Herron and the sight of it was more than worth it

$4.00 US dollars per 8 - 10 inch trout.
4 US bucks, is now $5.26 Canadian dollars. Does anybody need a new definition for slippery slope ?

A tidbit
Trout (lake trout variety ) are very sensitive to oxygen levels. Up our way since at least 1988 when we bought up there, all lake trout cottage lakes have been designated as limited future build. if someone owns just land (no cottage) whether 1/2 acre or even 200; they are only allowed to put up one building. Even one place can be challenging with the steep rocky terrain; but cottagers can be quite inventive.

Well, yesterday, as I sat on my porch swigging Moosehead Ale (really) and listened to Brahms' Fourth

Seems we like the same beer as well as tonearm :^)
One of my favs. Another one, also from Eastern Canada. (Down East as we call it here) Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale.
Although some Sleeman Original Draught has been going down really really well ...... with this hot, very humid summer.

Moosehead beer had a godmother as a founder...

from the website

Meet our founding mother
Back in 1865, Susannah Oland sailed from England to Nova Scotia with her family and, lucky for us, with her recipe for a rather delicious brown October ale. Cheers to that.