You think S. New England is noisy, try S.Old England!
I thought that when I moved to Australia the noise
problem would go away, wrong. One trip to a remote NP
in the N.Territory, involving 50km of dirt track from
the highway found me at a campsite where a large party
of schoolchildren were on a field trip. Very noisy.
When they had left I was able to hear the generator of
a homestead god knows how far away.
I have come to the conclusion that if I have been able
to get to a place, so will other people. Even in
remote forests in Madagascar recordings were made to
the accompnyment of local people chopping wood. Small
uninhabited offshore islands seem to be among the
better choices of locations, but you will never get
away from the aircraft noise anywhere. Dont despair
patience will get you the recordings you want. Good
luck.
Tony
--- bbystrek <> wrote:
> Any suggestions on finding quiet places to record
> habitat orientated
> soundscapes and in Southern New England? Getting
> away from traffic
> and airplanes is a huge challenge out here. It's
> nearly always
> necessary to carefully edit out each intrusion. I
> feel a little
> guilty about it, but I try to do it without
> interrupting a given
> creatures call when it appears in the foreground.
>
> Is there any sort of noise survey data out there or
> public use?=20
> Perhaps something that can integrate topographic
> data along with
> aircraft flyways and traffic speed/volume. You
> would think there
> would be some sort of noise modeling systems for
> highway planning use
> to be able to estimate the effects relative to the
> local topography.=20
> It's funny, sometimes you can be high upon the top
> of a hill, and
> hear every human voice in the valley below. While
> at other times the
> land is just such that either a highway is sunken
> below grade as it
> passes through a section of ledges and you would not
> even know it's
> there.
>
>
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