I am not convinced that minidisc's cut lows much at all.
I am more convinced since no one discounted my consumer md recording
showing a wave at 1/2 cycle this month
On high frequencies it does cut some. Those being the ones you can
not hear as a person.
I found the most pleasant wind sound recordings I have made being
stereo with mics at 50 foot separation. A sample was posted a couple
months ago but I don't even know if the link is still active. I only
remove those links as I need space for new sample posts. I think the
thread was something like "wide separation stereo".
Rich Peet
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> I seem to have a constant battle (as I am sure all of us do) with
the wind. Although I have been very fortunate in accumilating disks
and disks full of field recordings, I have also lost many really
great sounds due to the wind. I will give a more extreme example I
have dealt with over and over again.
>
> Although this is very accessible for me, the ocean is one thing I
would really like to capture. The problem is that wind inevitably
partakes in every ocean surrounding... there never seems to be a
clear day where you can get away with throwing your portadisc down
and catch a huge segment with no interferance. Wind usually winds up
inviting bad distortions etc. I have tried a couple of techniques
which work, but they always severely tamper with the integrity of the
recording.
>
> 1) prop something, or perch up behind a rock to block the wind and
knock the mic down to 90 degree angle. The problem I find is that
the sound usually comes out lopsided where one side sounds decent and
the other is strange almost tube like sounding.
>
> 2) find a cave and wait for the tide to drop and track in there.=20
Although it sounds cool and I can use it for something else, it still
doesn't really represent the ocean and proposes a huge tube effect.
>
> I am aware that the ocean carries the lagest frequency range on
this planet spanning out of human hearing both high and low! With a
minidisc and it's limitations (including frequency range cuts on both
high and low end where a lot of the power and umph is) I am not
expecting it to sound as majestic as it really is in real life, but
at least a decent representation would be great!
>
> I have had issues in many other places as well including hill
sides, valleys, canyons, storms... you name it.=20
>
> Is there a way to capture the wind so it compliments the tracking
and not destroy it?
>
> Thanks and take care!
>
> Greg=20=20=20
>
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