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Re: Recording levels or Where to find quiet.

Subject: Re: Recording levels or Where to find quiet.
From: "Peter Shute" pshute2
Date: Thu Aug 8, 2013 1:30 am ((PDT))
It's probably much easier to find quiet spots here in Australia, but you ca=
n still have to go a long way and choose the time and spot carefully. A rec=
ording I posted a link to here a year of so ago was made several hundred ki=
lometres inland, 100km from any town, in the middle of a national park. It =
turns out it's under the Melbourne to SE Asia flight path, and I can hear f=
aint gun shots every few minutes all the way through.=0D
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Peter Shute=0D
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Sent from my iPad=0D
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On 08/08/2013, at 1:38 PM, "lamprophis1963" <<san=
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> Finding quiet spots is the biggest challenge. In Australia.....=0D
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Wow. I would think in Australia it would be pretty easy to find quiet as lo=
ng as you got away from the coast. Some of the areas in inland Australia I'=
ve been to were pretty free of any anthrophony. Here in the US it is a lot =
harder to find quiet areas as I am sure it is in Europe.=0D
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I was in New Zealand over Christmas this year and was amazed that although =
I was in a small town neighborhood where a lot of people lived, there was l=
ittle or no anthrophony that I could detect most of the time. It was a welc=
ome change to San Antonio, Texas where I live.=0D
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Here in Texas, I tend to try to go out into the desert areas. One benefit o=
f those areas is that I can put a mountain range between myself and a busy =
highway by taking a quiet road out into the desert. That generally works as=
 a decent sound buffer. Of course, I have to drive 4-5 hours to get that ki=
nd of quiet.=0D
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Somewhere I remember someone posting a link to the major airplane flyways. =
Staying out of those can help as well.=0D
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