Live recording in the Great Outdoors

[Deleted User]

Hello,
My wife and I spent a chilly weekend at a cabin in the Catoctin Mountains and I brought along the SP7 for some nature recordings.
Ken

steveinaz

Cool idea Ken. Did they come out as hoped?

[Deleted User]

Hello,
Yes, they turned out really well. The first recording was made at dawn and there were lots of birds chirping and a woodpecker knocking on a hollow log down in the valley to the left of the cabin. It was a great sound, very resonant and clear as a bell. The second day it rained and I was able to record the sound of rain hitting the roof and railing, very steady rain falling with a few crows cawing in the distance. It was really neat playing it back when we got home, my wife said it gave her chills to hear it.
Ken

engtaz

post a mp3. It would be nice to hear.

Thanks

[Deleted User]

Hello,
I'm sorry I don't have a way to do that, I don't have much digital gear. Mostly analogue.
Ken

RuSsMaN

Good answer Ken.

Man, I want that Stellavox.

madmax

Kenneth Swauger wrote: »

Hello,
I'm sorry I don't have a way to do that, I don't have much digital gear. Mostly analogue.
Ken

You should get with polk paul and pick up some of that high falutin' digital stuff.
madmax

[Deleted User]

Hey Russ,
I hope I didn't come across the wrong way, I'd be happy provide anything to anybody, if I could. I just don't have any digital recording capability. A friend of mine makes some excellent sounding recordings using his laptop and a pair of really high end mics. I just like seeing those 10" reels turning round and round, seems more approachable. The microphone I was using was a Sony ECM737 which is a single stereo condenser mic with two separation settings, 90 and 120 degree. I used the 120 degree setting and it seemed to sound fine. I should have tried some 90 degree recordings and compared the results. I also have two Sony ECM 21 mics which are a poor man's high end mic. Microphones are kind of like phono cartridges, there's the "good-for-the-money" mic, like the Sony, and then the high end mics are ten times the price. I have to make a 3.5mm to DIN connector to use them. I was using a pair of Grado "open ear" style headphones which are the wrong type. I kept hearing the feed from the mic and the "real world" and I couldn't tell the difference. Of course that's what headphones are supposed to do, but it would be better to have a cupping style headphone with more isolation and still keep the fidelity.
Take care, Ken

[Deleted User]

Hey Madmax,
In fact, inside the cabin we had a really cool arrangement, Al has loaned me an iPod nano. My wife played DJ (she said she always wanted to be a radio DJ) she had downloaded some really excellent music, Clapton, Cream, Howlin' Wolf, Brue Cockburn, Muddy Waters etc from our CDs. Then I borrowed a miDock Studio and we set the iPod to shuffle. It was really good, sounded very nice and very easy to setup and take down.
Take care, Ken

RuSsMaN

Didn't come across wrong to me Ken, not in the least!

jakelm

Very nice Ken. I am so tempted to do that at the beach. But you know electronics and salty air dont mix too well.

riglehart

If you have a computer with a sound card, download Goldwave.

www.goldwave.com

I've been dubbing some old irreplaceable tapes to CD using this and it is pretty easy. Just get one of those RCA-mini plug converters and feed the 2 channel into your sound card and hit "record" in goldwave. There's tons of options. I downloaded it and had it working in about 20 mintues.

You can use it free in a full function evaluation mode for quite a while before they want their 50 bucks. I'm probably going to pay for it.

madmax

I have often thought of making recordings like that of the rain, thunderstorms, summer nights etc. Snow would be especially interesting.

[Deleted User]

How about the sound of one hand clapping?

TroyD

Btw, what's your HOME addy again?

I have something I want to, ah, MAIL you. Yeah, that's it, MAIL to you.

Yes, the miDock is a tres cool item.

BDT