Welcome, Ed. Nice recording! I am new to the group as well, but have also=
been lurking for a while. I think you will find a lot of good advice here.
Dana Blackmer
P.S. - I live in Richmond, VA now but was born and raised in central MA....=
Go Red Sox!
At 07:57 PM 8/6/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am Ed Anson, and I recently joined the group. I've been lurking
>awhile, just to get a feeling for how things go here.
>
>I have been working with video and audio for a few years now, strictly
>as a hobby. Recently, I have become more interested in just recording
>the sounds around me -- especially the natural sounds.
>
>I live in Andover, MA, which is about 20 miles north of Boston. For a
>suburban small town, we have a fair amount of preserved land. Between
>the state forest, the Conservation Commission and the AVIS
>organization, we have more than 5000 acres of conservation land in
>town. Unfortunately, the town is also home to two interstate highways
>and four state highways, so traffic noise is always a problem.
>Consequently, I do my most serious nature recordings at sunrise, before
>the traffic starts getting loud. Although it's a beautiful time of day,
>I'm not really a morning person, so I don't do it as often as I
>otherwise might. But I'm starting to consider the possibilities of
>midnight recording.
>
>I came here mostly to listen and learn. But I might insert a thought
>now and then when I think I have something to add.
>
>My ISP gives me a small quota for online data, so I have posted about
>five minutes from a recording I made last May, near a pond in the
>middle of town. The pond is part of a 314 acre preserved area that is
>home to about 38 species of birds as well as many other living things.
>I arrived at twilight, to record the morning chorus.
>
><http://home.comcast.net/~edanson/PondAmbience320.mp3>http://home.comcast.=
net/~edanson/PondAmbience320.mp3
>http://home.comcast.net/~edanson/PondAmbience56.mp3
>
>These two links are the same recording, at 320k and 56k bits per
>second, respectively.
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>
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