wow... yeah i hope i can attain that kind of self-, or should i say ear-con=
trol! i think the main issue for me is that i live in a noisy area - southe=
rn quebec - plane central! not to mention, redneck central also - people he=
re, like many other places, are obsessed with the machine and seem to be im=
mune to the alarms of their barking dogs. i mean, it just doesnt stop! but =
if i relocate far away - i will lose sounds like the hermit thrush et al. f=
ound in the east. we need Wild Soundscape Zoning.
On Monday, May 12, 2014 3:10 AM, "H=C3=A5kan Olsson =
[naturerecordists]" <> wrote:
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I agree that it's a combination of awareness and training.
After a while it got to be a curse...
It's like everyone is carrying around a built in filtering. When you begin =
to record nature sounds you start to actively listen both with and without =
headphones (amplified) so you are increasing your awareness and you are tra=
ining your ears. Now when I'm out with a friend ha can say -Wow it's so qui=
et and peaceful here, and I go -WHAT? All this noise is driving me nuts!
It's the built in filter that we recordists have rubbed off our brain that =
makes us hear more.
In the beginning when I started recording it was mostly frustrating when I =
got home and thought I had some great quiet recordings just to find out tha=
t they where full of human noise... Now I hear the noise when I'm recording=
so I don't get surprised when listening on the recordings at home.
The positive thing for me is that I have started to manage to turn the filt=
er on and off. Now, I can have the "filter" on when I'm not looking for sou=
nds or recording, and then turn it off when I want to. Ok, it's still a cur=
se sometimes and I might not be able to completely turn the filter on, but =
It's a lot better than it was for a while...
I hope you will be able to "control" the "brain filter" a little better in =
the future so it doesn't drive you nuts! :)
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