Welcome to the group.
The best pines recordings I like to listen to are recorded by a pair
of mics spaced at 50 feet or about 20 meters. It adds a time delay to
hear the movement more pronounced. Try it.
Rich
--- In "Jaap de Jong"
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> 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.
>
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"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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