From: tony baylis <>
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> At first reminded me of lots of recordings I have
> discarded as noisy, but got more interesting as it
> progressed.
> Tony Baylis.
This is a common experience. Most folks got into nature recording to
record the calls of some animal, usually birdcalls. They get out and
make a recording and it does not sound like they remember, there is all
this extra noise. Only later do they realize that their minds had been
filtering out the normal noise of the bird's environment and giving them
the call pretty much without it's environment.
We talk about wind noise as if it's a contaminant, for instance. And it
is if we look at the effects directly on the microphone. But all the
wind noise through the vegetation is perfectly natural and belongs
there. Our microphone has given us a true picture and our mind a
filtered one.
In another sense I like to introduce folks to nature recording and have
them discover all the extra noise. They become much more aware of the
extent of noise pollution by recording. One can only hope more active in
trying to do their part in curbing it.
The tricky bit is to make a recording that includes both those calls and
their environment and still sounds "natural" to us. That's the sort of
thing that makes ambient recording much more challenging than call
recording.
Walt
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