modulated-distance from the windy-water sources seems to be
key-- but what's the difference between white and
pink-noise?
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Ed Anson wrote:
> 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.
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