Nice work, Dana. That's precisely the way to represent the illusion
of streams (or ocean waves, for that matter). One needs to record
from various perspectives and combine them since we tend to hear what
we're looking at. Mics pick up everything within their range and
pattern. So the perspectives need to be recorded from each one, then
mixed.
Bernie
>I've been having fun doing some nature recording for the past couple
>of months. I'm anxious to get better at it. Toward this end, I am
>attaching a link to a 30-second .wav file of a mountain stream that
>I recorded last week-end, and I would like some feedback on it.
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>www.danablackmer.com/AudioFiles/HogcampBranch.wav
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>I recorded this in four parts - three of the tracks were recordings
>of small cascades done about six to twelve inches away The forth
>track was of the stream as a whole, recorded with the mics facing
>upstream from a height of about 12 feet. I mixed them in Audition.
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>Many of the recordings that I hear of streams on the web sound
>either like single cascades or white noise. I was trying to get a
>sound picture of the ambiance, but since I'm new at this I'm sure it
>can be done better.
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>If you have any comments about how I might improve this in any way,
>I'd love to hear your thoughts. I am not sensitive to constructive
>criticism and my goal is to use any feedback that I can get to
>improve my recording skills.
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>Thanks in advance for your help.
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>Dana Blackmer
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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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