As John Muir would attest, those pine trees can really sing in the wind.
Kevin
On Mar 12, 2009, at 11:16 PM, John Hartog wrote:
> Lou and John,
>
> It could very well be the wind in the trees. I am still getting used
> to discerning ambient resonance from artificial noise in high
> amplification recordings. 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 natural 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 up toward a crown of basalt several hundred feet ahead.
> Behind, the slope went much higher and was covered with juniper and
> may well have been a source of ambient sound in the steady light
> breeze. To the left the valley continued 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 calling 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 shock mounts on this top heavy design. My rig
> needs to be reworked to lower its 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
> >
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