I believe this discussion has proven, beyond any doubt, the existence of
bad recordists. They are out there.
On 2014-07-15 16:25, Bernie Krause
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> About 15 years ago, when I still had the Audio Forensic Center, I was
> more or less gainfully employed doing audio tape analysis, gun shots
> recording work, and voice print analysis for the Federal and State
> court systems as an expert witness, I got a request from a group
> living in N. California called, I think, the Big Foot Project. They
> hired me to do an analysis on hours of tape they claimed they=92d
> recorded of the great beastie=92s dulcet voice. And they offered a
> shit-load of money to have the analysis done, even though I cautioned
> them that most likely, we=92d get no result.
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> At no small expense, because they we so persistent, I did the work.
> Turned out that they had created a terrible, over-dubbed tape with 3
> or 4 layers of signal, some recorded in the outside at dawn that they
> claimed was recorded at around midnight, overdubbed with someone
> repeatedly saying something like, =93Come here, big boy.=94 No kidding,
> stuff like that. And in the background, obvious human grunts closely
> mic=92d, they claimed was the great vision, himself. With each
> successive layer of recording, you could detect traces of different
> 60Hz tracks introduced (typical of most tape recordings of the era),
> also various levels of tape hiss with each pass. Remember, this was
> submitted to me as proof of their encounter with Big Foot. The tape
> was so bad, that at some point, after finding clear evidence of over
> 200 edits/overdubs, I was embarrassed and just handed them back their
> box of tapes, most of their money, and only billed for about 10% of my
> time. To say this was all faked, is a bit of an understatement.
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> If folks need to believe in this kind of horsy manure in order to fill
> their lives with some kind of meaning or drama, then so be it. Please,
> however, just don=92t lay this kind of crap on others.
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> For what it=92s worth,
> Bernie Krause
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> On Jul 15, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Curt Olson
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>> I got dragged down this road a couple years ago in a brief e-mail
>> exchange with a Sasquatch hunter who claimed he heard one on my
>> website. Nope... what he heard was a winnowing snipe.
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>> He pointed me to a track on SoundCloud that purported to be a
>> Sasquatch vocalization captured in Minnesota north of Duluth. Nope
>> again... it was nothing more than a very poor job of audio fakery.
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>> Curt Olson
>> MinneasotaSoundscapes.com <http://MinneasotaSoundscapes.com>
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>> "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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