Since I have lately been working at home and spending time indoors, I have been hearing lots of outdoor sounds filtered through other objects like doors, windows, and floors. My world has been a slightly muted cornucopia of auditory hullabaloo1.
Last week I spent the day working out of a space in Gowanus, Brooklyn2. There was a vacant office space right next door to where I was editing and there were some distant door opens, banging, and some distant pre-recorded church bells.
Recording Geek Note: Rig consists of Schoeps CMC5′s setup for MS, with the MK4 as the mid. It was also tracked to a Sony PCM-M10 with a Sound Devices MP-2 as a front end.
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I wish this hullabaloo didn’t involve leaf blowers. ↩
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The world’s hippest superfund site. ↩
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