Re: Recording Wind

["Ed Anson" ed_anson]

On Apr 13, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Scott Fraser wrote:

> 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.

Both wind and waves do tend to sound like modulated pink noise. The
additional cues that make them sound like what they are can be subtle.
For example, I once recorded the wind in a pine forest. The main thing
that made it sound like wind (instead of noise) was the cracking of
the tree limbs in the wind. When I hear recordings of surf, it's
generally the sound of gulls in the distance (or a fog horn) that
helps me identify it.

OTOH: I have played plain pink noise to some friends and they said it
sounded like waves.

Ed