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Re: Recording levels or Where to find quiet.

Subject: Re: Recording levels or Where to find quiet.
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Thu Aug 8, 2013 8:44 am ((PDT))
Yes, isnt it terrible!
The only way I have come to some rest with all the noise, is trying
to make the noise sound as real as possible. Today I don't get crazy
about traffic noise, for example, as long as it sounds like traffic
noise and not like wind or a stream.
If the noise is there and you can't help it, make it a piece of the
picture and record it anyway!
Or use a parabol and focus on individual sounds.

Klas.

At 15:52 2013-08-07, you wrote:
>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 is turning out to be a problem.  In the
>backyard I get an underlying cacophony of air conditioners so I went
>out to the national forest 20 miles from nowhere, set up an ORTF
>arrangement next to a pond with lots of natural sounds and set my
>levels the way I would at home.
>
>On the first attempt besides the local natural sounds I got a forest
>service 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 home and the extraneous noise went away but so did a lot of
>the more subtle local sounds.
>
>
>
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