I work from home. Aside for forcing myself to shower and put on pants, there are few obstacles to productivity. Road crews are one of those obstacles when you are trying to mix a broadcast project. The other day I was mixing away when I started to hear the low drone and the metallic bangs of someone other than me being productive.
I don’t know what it is about my little suburban neighborhood, but the reflections of road construction noise off our little 1940 homes does something for my cranky soul. I’m always initially annoyed by the disruption, but once I get over that I have to stop, take a pause and listen to what is actually going on. There is something beautifully diffuse about these sounds.
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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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