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Re: Recording levels or Where to find quiet.

Subject: Re: Recording levels or Where to find quiet.
From: "rock_scallop" rock_scallop
Date: Thu Aug 8, 2013 6:25 pm ((PDT))
Oh, "real" meaning discernible as to what is making the sound.

One of the hardest situations for me is when I know there is a highway just=
 a few miles away, yet I am hopeful for a clean recording because I can't r=
eally discern the traffic by ear on location, but once get back to the stud=
io and start working with the file I realize it is all riddled with momenta=
ry rising hums from trucks accelerating through the distant curves - bummer=
! I don't toss them out or anything, but I prioritize working with cleaner =
stuff first.

John Hartog
rockscallop.org



--- In  vickipowys <> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I think Klas means he wants traffic/ whatever to sound realistic and
> not just a general roar.  Stereo works better than mono for this.
>
> Vicki
>
>
> On 09/08/2013, at 8:32 AM, rock_scallop wrote:
>
> > Hi Klas,
> > I understand that noise (anthropogenic) sometimes sounds like
> > nature, and vice versa nature sometimes sounds like noise.  But can =

> > you elaborate on your perspective that is not the noise you find
> > offensive, but that it does not sound real - that it falsely sounds =

> > like natural sound? I find this baffling.
> >
> > John Hartog
> > rockscallop.org
> >
> >
> > --- In  Klas Strandberg
> > <telinga@> 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.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> > sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> > Krause.
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>








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