Indeed - natural sounds are quite scarce during a northern winter. I live
about 600 km northwest of that location, and when the temps are -30 to -45
like they've been lately, there's not a lot of natural sounds...and the
man-made ones seem to carry farther with bare trees and cold, dense air.
Your best bet might have been to put the mics near a bird feeder, but unless
the location is very remote, you'd still end up with a lot of background
racket.
At least the gear was working properly!
Mark Phinney
on 12/27/08 11:34 AM, corthner at wrote:
Well I am back now. I did manage to make a recording Christmas morning
at my in-laws north of Spruce Grove, Alberta. I set out my mics about
7 hours before I started the recording. The temperature was about -33C
when I started the recording at about 6am. I set out the recorder
(SD702) only when I started to make the recording. There were
absolutely no problems at all. No pops, clicks or hissing.
Unfortunately there was nothing captured on the recording of any
significance likely due to the cold temperature. The world woke up at
around 8:30 and all the vehicle traffic and dogs etc. made a mess of
the silence. I did manage to pick up 2 trains rumbling through at a
distance of about 10km(6.25 miles)early on in the recording. I thought
Christmas morning would be a great chance of some real quite at the
acreage, but that was not to be. I have tried one other recording
there on a Sunday afternoon and there was literally not 10 seconds out
of 45 minutes without a quad, traffic, chainsaws, dogs, people etc. I
love how recording has opened my ears to what really is noise. At the
same time it makes me very sad to realize how little quiet is out there.
Collin Orthner
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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