sandy hall-behrens wrote:
> robin, thank you for a thorough explanation. the photos oriented me as I =
thought we were listening from the point of "view" of the 1st photo, thus, =
in the OPEN wind!
I didn't have any way of measuring it, but there was an ever-present (if in=
constant) and generally quite forceful wind rising up over Moytura. Now mat=
ter what equipment I may have, I always come back to basics, and one of the=
principles is to get the mic close to the sound source.
With my ears-brain I could hear the whistling from quite far away. But take=
away the brain part and I knew the recording would be quite poor unless I =
got close. :-)
Thanks for your kind words about the recording.
Some of you might be interested in looking up the pre-history of Moytura, a=
s the location is important in Irish mythology. It was an unsettling place =
to be recording, and only part of that was down to the incessant rain and w=
ind. I think I was there for six hours. (Though I know this is nothing comp=
ared to those on this list more adventurous than me!)
-- Robin Parmar
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