Meant to say, Dan, that I enjoyed the recording. I think we in
Central Florida have forgotten what rain sounds like...
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Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA
--- In Dan Dugan <> wrote:
>
> Dave, you wrote,
>
> >I recently made a recording during a wind/rain storm at the Oregon
> >coast (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?
id=45481).
>
> I was thrown by the changing perspective for a moment, then
realized
> that you were recording on the move.
>
> >When the big drips from the trees hit the mic windscreen (a home
made
> >faux fur zeppelin), it was quite loud. I am curious why the drips
in
> >your recording are much quieter.
>
> They weren't, I did two things to the sample in post. First I tried
> Waves X-Click, set to catch only the louder bangs so that I would
> preserve the rain sounds in the environment. This was only
partially
> satisfactory; the "shape" setting, that determines the length of
the
> "fix" the plug-in does, wasn't long enough at maximum setting. It
> took the sharp edge off, but left thumps.
>
> I also (all in one pass) pushed up the clip's level with Waves L1,
so
> the thumps that would have clipped got squashed.
>
> Three plugs in sequence: Q4 to correct the EM-23 response and
balance
> my 2 mics (known diff. in sensitivity), X-Click, and L1.
>
> -Dan Dugan
>
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