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RE: Re: Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge

Subject: RE: Re: Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge
From: "Martyn Stewart" <>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:03:28 -0700
Sorry for the late response Dave, there is no rest for the wicked, that=92s
for sure!!

What I was doing was recording with a mic to my computer via a motu 728 int=
o
a roland2480 and back again. I had left the sliders fully open while
narrating giving an echo back through the recorder and computer. What I
should have done was pulled the level controls down to zero omitting the
phase sound. It is a pain in the rectum when this happens.
You should be ok if you are just recording through a sound card. The chance=
s
of this happening are zero but I like to complicate things like a bloody
idiot :)

Martyn

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-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Klas Strandberg
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 4:41 PM
To: 
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Re: Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge

I cannot explain why, but how I noticed it:

Martyns voice sounded strange. The effect is hard to explain. It's
emotional. "It just isn't right".

I looked at the phase-scope and found that every time Martyn spoke, it
leaned to the left.
Trying to use a little more gain on the right channel, to compensate
-  only resulted into a lower overall gain. One channel tended to partly
cancel the other.

You can imagine this:
Suppose you listen to something with your earphones, connected 180 degrees=

out of phase. (+ to - and - to +) Then, one membrane will go inwards to
your eardrum while the other goes outwards. It's unnatural.
Martyns voice was (partly) like that. Why, I can't say. Martyn has to
explain that.


Klas


At 20:37 2005-08-13, you wrote:
>Klas (or Martyn),
>Could you explain a little about what the phase problem was
>originally? Just trying to learn what to watch for.
>
>dave
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>--- In  Klas Strandberg
><> wrote:
> > MUCH better!
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Klas.
> >
> > At 01:32 2005-08-13, you wrote:
> > >I had not been happy with the vocal narrative microphone sound on the
> > >documentary so I have re-done the narrative, it sounds much
>cleaner. Klas
> > >pointed out to me that there was an annoying phase problem, I have
>now fixed
> > >it.
> > >http://www.naturesound.org/Sound%20Files/ANWR%20June%202005.mp3
> > >
> > >Thank you Klas.
> > >
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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>

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"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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