Field Recording and Background Noise
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- Getting out and capturing more audio has been great and I'm still amazed by how much more you hear when monitoring your audio.
It was a huge surprise to realise how much our brain filters out sounds it doesn't think are important.
When you put your headphones on and listen there is always something you'll hear that you were unaware of only moments before. The background sounds that I don't enjoy are usually, traffic noise and planes, they never sound great when you are trying to capture a nature soundscape.
Today was planned to be a more general environment capture but now I think I will need to add generators to the growing list.
Enjoy!
All the audio was captured by;
Zoom F8n
Clippy XLR stereo pair
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It can be bloody infuriating, some times I want to search that hum out and destroy it 😂 Most days I’m calm and just except it as part of the soundscape I’m recording 👍
Totally agree, I was looking around to try and figure out where it was coming from. Thankfully it didn't spoil the trip and I still enjoyed the sunrise:-) Thanks for your comment.
Sods law. It does sound like diesel generator rumble or fishing boat/trawler maybe? 🙄 All the best. 👍🙂 Kind regards, BG
I couldn't see any but I didn't have a clear view along the coast, did sound diesel though. Thanks for the comment.👍
Big engine rumbles will carry for shockingly long distances across open water and flat areas, I've found that the best way to minimise noise from boats and other machinery is to get several million tons of hill squarely in between you and the sources :P There's a few different very prominent drones in my "Elbow of the Davaar Doirlinn" recording I did a while ago, then in some of the other recordings I've made not that far away but occluded by terrain you can hear the difference in relative noise floor. Basically I think you want to look for 'acoustic shadows', wind and temperature gradients in the atmosphere can also cause some interesting effects where distant sounds can be refracted away or towards you. If you haven't got it already the "Master Handbook of Acoustics" by Everest and Pohlmann is a great resource.
I really enjoyed recording at the waters edge but your right it is amazing how far the low frequency sound travels. Thank you for the great tip about the book, it has been added to my wish list.
My next recording session I think I will take you advice and head further into the hills and see how I get on, I would love to get a solid 30 min recording without any engines interrupting the soundscape.
You might find Gordon Hempton’s work very interesting: th-cam.com/video/jAgCeyW8iTA/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for that Tom , that was a great watch. Much appreciated👍