The question is, how do you deal with noise pollution?
Being a newbie to this hobby I assembled a field kit from what I had using =
an old Edirol R-1, Rolls MX34C preamp/mixer and a pair of Rode NT2As. This =
turned out to be a very quiet chain but finding an unpolluted environment i=
s turning out to be a problem. In the backyard I get an underlying cacopho=
ny of air conditioners so I went out to the national forest 20 miles from n=
owhere, set up an ORTF arrangement next to a pond with lots of natural soun=
ds and set my levels the way I would at home.
On the first attempt besides the local natural sounds I got a forest servic=
e tractor clearing a road about 2 miles away, 3 or 4 airplanes and a heavy =
truck. None of which I could hear with my bare ears.
Second attempt I cut the levels way back figuring to normalize when I got h=
ome and the extraneous noise went away but so did a lot of the more subtle =
local sounds.
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