As a field recordist, I often find interesting things to record from friends and random people I meet. Several of the libraries I’ve released over at Rabbit Ears Audio have developed from total chance meetings.
I’m an active cyclist and I occasionally see a massage therapist after I put in lots of mileage. I love riding but I don’t necessarily do all of the stretching and things that would help me. I’m not getting any younger so occasionally a massage helps a great deal.
A few weeks ago, I was getting my massage and right outside of the office the entire street was getting ripped up. The sounds were incredibly soothing. Who needs new age music and ambiences when you can have intense road construction!!
I returned a week later and got myself on the rooftop. There was a backhoe picking up giant pieces of road and dropping them into the back of dump truck:
The loud bangs occurred when the backhoe had to break up some of the larger pieces with its bucket. I love all of the crazy reflections off the nearby buildings.
Viva La Road Maintenance!
Recording Geek Note: Rig consists of Schoeps CMC5′s setup for MS, with the MK4 as the mid. It was all tracked to a Sound Devices 744T at 24/96.
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Mountain Lake Biological Station
This post comes from Stephen Vitiello who has been spending time at the Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke, VA: I was tipped off to some sounds to listen for – juvenile barred owls, calling after sunset. I left a pair of DPA 4060s in a tree over night and captured some call and response and a moment of rain.
Bird Deck
One of the things I love about long holiday weekends is that most of my neighbors head out of town. Last weekend was Memorial Day weekend here in the states, and in terms of noise, that means quiet. Not only were the neighbors quiet, but temperatures didn’t peak enough for HVAC units to start kicking on. With quiet in mind,
All Clad
What is that expression about making lemons out of lemonade? Or is it lemonade out of lemons. For the next few weeks my next door neighbors are having their roof and siding redone, and if I am going to have to suffer through it, I might as well get some useful recordings out of it. This recording is from day