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Re: What's wrong with this (sound) picture?

Subject: Re: What's wrong with this (sound) picture?
From: "Dana Blackmer" <>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:41:25 -0000
Thanks you all for your helpful and kind comments.  I am encouraged
to get out there as soon as I can record some more.

If only that day job wouldn't interfere so much...

Dana

--- In  Wild Sanctuary <>
wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >www.danablackmer.com/AudioFiles/HogcampBranch.wav
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> >Dana Blackmer
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Microphones are not ears,
> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
> >A listening room is not nature."
> >Klas Strandberg
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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> P. O. Box 536
> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
> t. 707-996-6677
> f. 707-996-0280
> http://www.wildsanctuary.com




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