Another small gripe. I think the editors lost an opportunity in the
introduction where Jem says, when standing in the anechoic chamber,
"made with walls that produce _no_echo_whatsoever". With reverb. :-)
Appreciate that in such a short piece it is difficult to fit everything
in, but I reckon it would be possible to do a with/without comparison in
something like 20 seconds.
Anyway, the piece is certainly food for thought, particularly around
needing to get background noise levels low in order to pick up small
sounds like these. Something I want to do sometime, and I had fantasies
of just being able to get, say, ants or big centipedes (presumably
easier) to walk over a contact microphone to get something interesting.
At the moment it is looking like something better done in the studio
than in the field.
Richard
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 20:33 +0000, Avocet wrote:
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> > Bang Goes the Theory is on Monday 19 March at 19:30 GMT on BBC One.
> > Watch again on iPlayer (UK only) using the link.
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> I listened again to the BBC's "Bang", a popular science
> programme, in the anechoic chamber. Interestingly, the final
> mix noise was a quite audible -48dB below peak which is not
> good for digital, but you rarely got to hear this as they
> plastered annoying muzak all over the quiet sequences as
> they do.
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