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Subject: Re: Recording like photography
From: "richpeet" <>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 04:38:03 -0000
I just now finished my editing of the exhibit I have been working on.
Edit time depends on what your end project is.
I can not edit for a broadcast sound in under 1 hour per 30 seconds.  
If anyone out there can then you are great in my eyes.
We do different things with sound, not all have anywhere near the 
same end product.

Think in terms of "construction", "remodeling", "renovation", 
and "show".
The project I just finished was a construction. I put more than 150 
separate Mono sounds into one exhibit. A seven min presentation.  But 
should I be asked to sell a companion CD of this sound it will be 
edited to be no more than 10 stereo tracks wwith no overlap of sounds.

I remember Stan of this group looking at me strange when we first 
met. I put a stereo mic in the water with a hip-shot guess on gain 
while he was "point and shoot" for the sound with exact meter 
readings.  My first 90 mins. was waste.  But I did get my sound. My 
edit of over 200 mins on this night was reduced to under 3 mins by 
the time I was done. Stan got his sound too and he spent most of our 
time in just bs over the bumper.  A hard one to call on which tech 
was better.

Oh, on the other thread, I took the risk and put my exhibit sound in 
VBR for the 8Traxx machine.  I did a bandpass filter before mp3 
compression guessing that the size would be reduced if I cut the 
below 50 cycles and above 10,000 that I don't care about.  I think I 
am ok.

But I am still a rookie wanna be semi-pro.

Rich Peet


--- In  "Neville Recording" <> 
wrote:
> Evert;
> 
> I have produced six CD's  of bird songs and am working on a 
seventh. I agree with you, from my own perspective, the best 
recordings are those that require no editing. I don't think I have 
achieved the "perfect recording" , but a few of my recordings have 
required absolutely no editing. I get a tremendous feeling of 
satisfaction telling the sound engineer not to change anything. I 
also add narration, to inform or build a word picture around the 
subject. I think my productions are about 60% art and 40% science. 
However, I always lament not getting a better recording of some 
species.  The poorer recordings, frustrate and linger in the memory, 
more than the good ones. In other words, there is a personal 
competative element to always try and do better recordings not edit 
more.
> 
> John Neville 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



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