And you must have quite the place to record this out the screen door
in your front yard. I could get some lawn mowers and dogs barking out
my front door.
Kevin
www.7Loons.com
On Apr 12, 2009, at 9:57 PM, yetanotherlogon wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> A quick introduction since this is my first post... I've been lurking,
> listening, and learning in this group for a few years. Many years
> ago I
> used a Marantz PMD stereo cassette recorder (that will date me) to
> record while backbacking and hiking, mostly in the mountains and
> deserts
> of the southwest USA. Unfortunately all the tapes (and the recorder)
> disappeared during a move around 20 years ago. Last year when I read
> that the AT3032s were being discontinued and were on sale, I took the
> plunge and bought 2 along with a Foxtex FR2-LE from ebay. In
> September I
> took them to the White Mountains in eastern Arizona (USA) for a first
> attempt to return to nature recording.
>
> This was recorded in Auger Canyon, (near Nutrioso, AZ) at the
> transition
> between Ponderosa Pine forest and the grassland along Auger Creek,
> at 5
> am on September 4, 2008. I had got up early with the idea of going
> outside to try to record the dawn chorus, and was sipping coffee and
> testing mic levels when things started to happen, so I quickly set
> up at
> the sliding screen door inside the house. Fortunately it faced the
> action. I apologize in advance for all the noise - the biggest monsoon
> storm in years had rolled through the day before and it had rained all
> afternoon and night, so there were a lot of dripping sounds and house
> noises. It was also the darkest night I've ever seen there, with no
> moon and thick overcast, so I couldn't watch the critters - just
> listen.
> There are some edits in the first third of the recording, mostly to
> cut
> out creaks and drips, a car in the distance, and my cat freaking out
> (running up and down the stairs and jumping from window to window to
> try
> to see what was happening), while the last 2/3 of the recording is all
> real-time with no edits. There was also a low frequency hum which I
> believe was coming from a wet transformer near the house, so I used
> the
> low-frequency rolloff on the mics. You can still hear the hum with
> headphones at higher volumes, but it's not too distracting.
>
> This excerpt is around 9 minutes of a 20 minute recording. For an
> authentic experience, listen with headphones in complete darkness. ;-)
> I do notice that much of the action is not audible when playing over
> my
> built-in computer speakers, even at max volume, but too loud at that
> same level with headphones plugged into the computer, so I guess
> it's a
> good compromise level.
>
> http://rni.net/~tgs1/WhiteMountains/B04h57m02s04sep2008-EDIT-3.mp3
> <http://rni.net/~tgs1/WhiteMountains/B04h57m02s04sep2008-EDIT-3.mp3>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/c2q3c2 <http://tinyurl.com/c2q3c2>
>
> I'll let the subject of the recording be a surprise. ;-) Questions,
> comments, criticisms and suggestions are very welcome. Thank you to
> all
> those who post here for letting me learn from you! And apologies to
> those who already read this long post in the naturerecording group.
>
> Terry Stambaugh (aka Terry in AZ)
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