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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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