Today was a lazy Sunday for me and the missus, which meant a morning trip to the laundromat to have some machines clean our clothes. In an effort to capitalize on the experience, I decided to do some recording. I put my DPA 4060s in my hat, packed up the dirty clothes and headed down to the local laundromat.
The space has a low level rumble from the clothes cleaning machinery, and, if you listen long enough, you’ll hear various patrons looking for their missing socks.
Remember to be careful and dry at your own risk!
Recording Geek Note: Rig consists of a pair of DPA 4060 mounted stealthily in a hat. It was all tracked to a Sony PCM-M10, with Sound Devices MP2 as a front end while trying to avoid running into the snuggle bear.
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