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Date: Thu Aug 8, 2013 9:22 am ((PDT))
I feel fortunate to be able to find areas by my house without much manmade =
sounds ( just occasional plane, rare distant dog barks, and occasional all =
terrain vehicle). But it is a 50 minute drive to get groceries too...haha
Chad
On 2013-08-08, at 11:43 AM, Klas Strandberg wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------
> >
> >"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> >sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause=
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> >
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
> S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
> Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
> email:
> website: www.telinga.com
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