Thanks for these. It didn't seem to make a difference that I don't
understand Portugese. :) And the crickets made me
sleeeeepy....zzzzzz. Very nice sounds.
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Suzanne
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA
--- In "Aaron Ximm"
<> wrote:
>
> Coming back to a wealth of discussion, I've skimmed over the bulk of
> it, but I did pick up the request for examples of recent
recordings...
>
> With that in mind thought I would mention that I posted seven
> one-minute excerpts of my own recordings from the residency I just
> returned from on my site, on my 'one-minute vacation' page, which
was
> on hiatus in my absence:
>
> http://oneminutevacation.org
>
> They were all made in Nodar, the small town I was in in a rural
valley
> in northern Portugal -- which despite its status as rural rather
than
> wild (and almost total absence of what could be considered true
> forest) was remarkably quiet (and lovely).
>
> Of mild interest to some may be that the majority of them were made
> with my "new" recording rig, a pair of Sennheiser MKH-800s and a
Sound
> Devices 722, which I'm still getting my head around. The recordings
> you can hear on the site were made in imperfectly coincident
Blumlein
> (side-by-side mics in a Windpac, rather than end-to-end in my
> work-in-progress frankenblimp).
>
> In a nutshell I'd say the 800s are awesome in their "reach" and
> clarity and low self-noise, but I have work to do to find the right
> portable windscreen and mounting for them; they were effectively
> unusable on the K-tek boom I brought for being so sensitive...
> tightening my grip on the boom was clearly audible as rumble.
Grumble.
> Btw the thunder recording suffers as a result of this; I had the
mics'
> and SD's high pass filters engaged, so the bottom of the thunder is
> lost...
>
> In a day or two I'll link pix for those tracks and hopefully get the
> podcast version out!
>
> best,
> aaron
>
> --
>
> quietamerican.org
> oneminutevacation.org
>
> 83% happy
> 9% disgusted
> 6% fearful
> 2% angry
>
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