Re: Recording Wind

["Scott Fraser" scottbfraser]

<<Any recommendations on recording wind?>>

The best wind recording I've got came from slightly cracking open a
sliding window in the back of a hotel room in Southern Utah, while
leaving the front window open. Lots of whistling caused by fine
tuning the aperture of the window.
I've heard of a cinema sound designer who rolls his pickup truck down
a long stretch of downgrade in Nevada with the engine off & the wind
wing just slightly cracked open to achieve the same effect.
On the other hand, when I've recorded lovely sighing wind lightly
rustling through the tops of pines trees, it has always come out
sounding like modulated white noise on playback & has never portrayed
a realistic sense of the soundscape to my ears.

Scott Fraser