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Re: Preventing Thunder Distortion

Subject: Re: Preventing Thunder Distortion
From: "Mark R." seoulgypsy
Date: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:26 am (PDT)
Hi Guy,

That first clip is pretty darn scary! That is a Frankenstein clap if I ever
heard one.

The second clip doesn't sound too distorted to my ears. Was this recorded i=
n
a valley? The resonances sound that way to me and it could be
a natural distortion that is amplified by the mics that may not have sounde=
d
that way to your ears....does that make any sense? Anyway I have felt the
experience of colouration ( is that a word? google spell check thinks so
;^)  when recording tornadic <(google didn't like this one, but i do)
thunderstorms in my home state of Oklahoma.


Best,
Mark


On 7/18/06, guyhand2 <> wrote:
>
>    I'm new to this list and just want to say how helpful the flood of
> comments have been
> regarding my question about recording thunder without distortion. As
> requested, I'll post a
> couple of examples of the thunder I recently recorded on a 722 with a
> Shure VP88. This first
> one was a very loud crack nearly overhead that, to me, sounds pretty damn
> good (wait for the
> big crack about a third of the way in):
>
> www.guyhand.com/bigboom2.wav
>
> This second example of thunder that was much further away sounds distorte=
d
> to me, but
> after the list comments and a more critical listen, I'm wonder if the
> problem might be as
> simple as some kind of mechanical vibration through the tripod I was usin=
g
> or some screw
> that wasn't quite tight enough. Although I had the mic in a shock mount, =
I
> can imagine that
> those low frequency rumbles could get almost anything vibrating.
>
> www.guyhand.com/boom2.wav
>
> And thanks again,
>
> Guy
>
>
>



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