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3. Re: Recording Wind

Subject: 3. Re: Recording Wind
From: "John Hartog" hartogj
Date: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:03 am ((PDT))
Hi Scott,

Yes, it is a matter of perspective.  But in the context of a nature
sound recording, the wind even distant wind can sound (modulate) in a
way that is unmistakably the wind - even without obvious cues like
whistling or nearby plants rustling.  

John Hartog
www.rockscallop.org


--- In  Scott Fraser
<> wrote:
>
> Sorry, previous post went out without the reply.
> 
> > <<If our wind
> > recordings sound like "modulating pink noise" then we have failed to
> > do the wind justice. Could also be the equipment, stereo compression,
> > the setting, not enough practice or human error at 4a.m. Or maybe we
> > are playing it too loud. >>
> 
> In this case, I feel it is a matter of perspective. Just as we don't  
> get the same perspective that we have sitting in the 20th row in a  
> concert hall when we place a stereo pair of mics in the 20th row, we  
> also need to be a lot closer to the rustling tops of pines to get the  
> same degree of detail we hear from a ground level perspective.
> 
> Scott Fraser
> 
> 
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