I concur, listening on my professional monitors, I didn't hear any
real distortion, but my subwoofer was kicking in nice and healthy. I
think there is just so much bass in that second clip that your
speakers themselves are overloading.
Both clips sounded fine.
Tim
On Jul 18, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Ed Anson wrote:
> Guy,
>
> When I listened to the second clip using headphones, I didn't hear any
> significant distortion. But when I played it back using the cheap
> speakers on my computer, I got significant distortion. I think
> something in the speakers is resonating with the lower frequencies in
> the rumble.
>
> As someone else pointed out, most of the energy (at the point of
> distortion) is at 60 hZ and below. The subsonic components could
> easily
> cause resonances in a speaker. The first clip doesn't have nearly as
> much energy in the subsonic range.
>
> I didn't hear anything that sounded like digital distortion or
> clipping.
>
> Ed
>
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:50 AM, 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
> > distorted 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
> > using 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Microphones are not ears,
> > Loudspeakers are not birds,
> > A listening room is not nature."
> > Klas Strandberg
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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