Hi Jaap,
Welcome to the group!
You could move to Iowa, here in the upper middle part of the US.
It's so quiet you can hear the individual cillia in your
cochlea. Often at night the loudest sound is the blood in my
head. But sometimes, during the summer, the cicada buzz so
loudly in the fields that you can barely hear yourself speak.
Recording wind is a little tricky, but rain and thunder, and
birdsong, are popular among a lot of the folks in this group. If
you review some of the older messages, you'll find a LOT of
information on compact or portable or high quality mics,
preamps, recorders, wind protection, etc.
When you say "ultra-portable" are you thinking of very small and
low power, or just very strong and well-suited to use in the
field? The Sound Designs 722 is a very high quality, very
robust, very expensive recorder that most of us feel is just
about the best you can get for high-end 2-channel field
recording. But there are lots of other choices, and new
recorders are appearing about every 4 months.
Some of us have had experience with binaural recording, and some
folks here do use the Sennheiser "head" binaural mic system
(with various modifications). The Sonic Studios
modified-binaural mics are also popular.
I'm sure you'll find plenty of ideas and a huge amount of
detailed information on lots of aspects of field recording.
Allen
Allen Cobb
http://timbreproductions.com
-----Original Message-----
From:
Behalf Of Jaap de
Jong
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:15 PM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] pine forrest wind
Dear Naturerecordists,
I am new to this nice group so here is some information on me.
Recently I discovered a personal longing for silence. Since I
live in
downtown Amsterdam, NL, and despite of having a nice home,
neighbors
are way too noisy. As my occupation has a lot to do with music,
recording and audio in general, I learned to like silence as
well.
However here in The Netherlands even the word 'silence' is
almost
absent. Therefore I would love to emigrate to some place quiet,
where
I can repose and listen to tranguil nature sound. You can
imagine that
silence to my belief could be anything except heavy traffic,
barking
dogs, neighbours banging their heads to test the walls, or even
digital zero.
Some of my favorite nature-sounds include (among others) wind
through
pine-trees, thunder and songbirds. Other -more or less- human
sounds
which I very much like to listen to are windchimes and the
rougher
wind buffeting 'stays' (metal lines on aluminum masts of
sailboats in
marinas). I would like to record these sounds by myself. Respect
to
Gordon Hempton for he knows how to do top-recording and how to
get
away from our present disturbing-noise-world. In the near future
I
want to buy a fire-wire interface to do laptop (music)recording,
although it might be too heavy for extended (naturesound-)
recording
in the field (not to mention the battery-power). Has anyone here
experience with high-end ultra portable recording gear in
conjunction
with e.g. the Neumann dummyheads? Or can anyone provide me with
some
of the sounds I described? I would love to hear from you guys
(and girls?)
Greetings! Jaap de Jong (male, 29) Amsterdam.
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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