Lou and John,
It could very well be the wind in the trees. I am still getting used to dis=
cerning ambient resonance from artificial noise in high amplification recor=
dings. The SD702 levels were set to 60.3 leaving enough headroom in case a =
caller came in fairly close. In post I added an additional 42dB which made =
everything super noisy before my eq. My goal with eq was to make it sound n=
atural even when I considered the ambient roar to be not natural.
The mics were set up near the bottom of a steeply sloped valley and aimed u=
p toward a crown of basalt several hundred feet ahead. Behind, the slope w=
ent much higher and was covered with juniper and may well have been a sourc=
e of ambient sound in the steady light breeze. To the left the valley conti=
nued narrow narrow and upward. To the right the valley opened up down a few=
hundred feet, and that is where our camp was and where the owls were calli=
ng from trees surrounding the meadow.
John, as to what I did to avoid wind rumble on the NT1As:
Mostly I jumped on the opportunity of the calm night and hoped for the best=
. My main rumble problem is not from wind getting through to the diaphragms=
, but from physical vibrations of wind resistance that carry through the sh=
ock mounts on this top heavy design. My rig needs to be reworked to lower i=
ts center of gravity I think.
And Aaron, thanks for the compliment!
John Hartog
--- In "John Tudor" <> wrote:
>
> --- In Lou Judson <inaudio@> wrote:
> > Sounds to me more like the natural ambience of the place. Wind
> > hitting the mic is more like a rumble; what I hear there is the wind =
> > in the trees and other vegetation.
> >
>
> That's what I thought too Lou, but I asked about the wind in case it was =
actually that.
>
> It sounds distinctively like wind in the tree tops.
>
>
> John
>
"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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