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My gf has just acquired a good quality field recording device (a pro radio one). I'm going to swipe it and use it to record some sounds for some ambientish music. Aside from the nearby docks and beach, is there anywhere else that would be good for sounds (in a medium sized, fairly urban post-industrial town)? |
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I think anywhere is probably a good place. |
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I personaly dislike industrial sounds, traffic etc, it's quite boring, If you can you should go in to the woods or something, cheesy classical ambiences like birds, rivers, rain and so on is awsome :) |
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Somewhere quiet. Or... somewhere noisy. |
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any good kids parks nearby that you can go haywire on the metal toys and railings and jungle jims? With a decent microphone, you can get some amazing resonating tones from metal hiting large metal structures (have a friend hit it on one side, and record the other, so you don't get much attack, just an infinite delay). Broken glass is always fun to. Do some urban exploration and find some abandoned factories with a lot of tools and machines lying around. |
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But just recording ambient city noises becomes a nightmare. Its a lot of editing for very little payoff, and a lot of noisy traffic. Always go out field recording with something in mind to capture, otherwise you will spend hours in front of your computer for a couple seconds of usable audio. A little goes a long way with recording. |
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And remember, you won't be able to pick up certain sounds. A lot of drones made by ventalators for example, end up being indistinguishable from any other city noise. When you record, try to prime yourself before you go out with a sound check, so your ear is tuned to what volumes you need to record at for various different kinds of sounds. |
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somewhere crowded with people. |
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A public toilet. Female, preferably. |
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Yes, there are big woods without traffic noise. I also quite fancy trying from underneath a railway bridge to get a train going over (again, one out away from the normal traffic). There's a good park near me, I'd not considered using the railings. Traffic noise may be a problem there, but a few miles away there's a more remote one that should be good. Ta for the tips, all. |
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A thunderstorm. I want a really good recording of a thunderstorm. At least 15 minutes worth. |
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open up a manhole climb down record climb back out go to a telephone booth leave recorder hidden and on record fetch after a few people have been in the booth talking go to a restaurant ask if you can come into the kitchen to do some recordings.. say you're a major artist |
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if not too cumbersome i will carry it with me on my normal daily movements all of the most mind blowing noises i have heard were all unpremeditated |
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That's what I feel. Only one really awesome noise I've come across outside is repeteable (there's something wrong with the electric doors on a particular Lidl store that makes it sound like something off star trek). The ideal would be something small and light, but with massive storage capactity that you could record all the time with. Even then I imagine you'd get a lot of background noise over most cool sounds. I quite like tree branches cracking just before they fall, but again, that happening naturally (and them being high up enough to make cool sounds as they hit other branches on the way down) is rare. |
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My philosophy is more that the most interesting sounds for feild recording aren't the ones that happen rarely, but more the normal sounds that people wouldn't think to record or even take much interest in otherwise. |
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