Recording with a Little Rain

Happy Fall!

The minute long sound clip I chose is the Ambient sound recording with the NT3 & NT4

https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/jaknap/Public/Film%20420%20Field%20Audio/STE-002AMBIENT%20NT3%26NT4.wav

The Leaves are very prominent so much that you can barely hear the ones close by on the pavement. Crows are about the only sound you hear screeching over the wind. There are also smaller birds close by in the tree to the left of me. Towards the end when the wind dies down for just a second you hear water from our pond in the back, very quiet.

The descriptions of my recordings follow, all together there were 15 recordings. Some were done twice, I will chose one recording to represent each exercise.

All recordings were done in my backyard, the house is located outside the Town of Cedarburg. The only sound that might interrupt would be the traffic on HWY 60 far behind the subdivision.



Exercise 1
Recording #1
Time/Date: Sunday Sept. 16th 9:30AM
Location: House, country, facing road in front of house
Zoom On Board Mics 90degree setting
Breeze
Quality is okay, unfortunately the breeze would move the cord ever so slightly making a kind of squeak or rustle.

Recording #2
Time/Date: Sunday Sept. 16th 9:35AM
Location: Same
Zoom On Board Mics 120degree setting
Breeze
Quiet, even with the recording level at 94. It is obviouse that the sound is less directional with the increase of the sound of birds and trees blowing in the breeze to the sides. Towards the end I must have bumped the recorder or a button? Click sound.

Exercise 2Recording #10
Time/Date: Saturday Sept. 22nd 12:26AM
Location: House, country, facing away from road in front of house
NT3 and NT4; Near-Coincident Technique
Wind
The trees are very prominent even though there are farther away. My first recording of this is terrible before changing my position more so to avoid the wind. This recording is sheltered by a car on the right to block the wind.

Recording #5
Time/Date: Sunday Sept. 16th 9:50AM
Location: House, country, facing away from road in front of house
NT4; 4CH Mode
Inconsistent Breeze
The breeze would blow one way then another at times causing some unwanted peaking and the cord to the mic can be hear just a bit. Overall the recording captured its surroundings well even with the breeze.