Guest Zeenat Aman Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 What would be a good way to record natural sounds outside, such as bird song, ambient street sounds and so on?I imagine that it must be hard to get good levels and avoid unwanted noise messing up the recordings!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Karloff Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 Probably a directional microphone to minimise picking up other sounds, and a good resolution of recorder. You can probably then do a lot of clean up on the sound on a computer with ProTools, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neil ex Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 With the idea of cleaning up, in mind... Accidental sounds might be worth recording... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lime ruined my life Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 a portable dat, and a stereo mic. (Y)you could get an active stereo mic, thatd pick up things best, and give you a stereo image which would be more natural, a directional mic woudlnt work, unless you got very close the to the thing you wanted to record, and pointed the damn thing at the bird.thats why sm58's arnt ambient mics (Y)you can get stereo mics that are like stereo bud headphones, except instead of speakers going in, it has mics going out. its like wearing a wire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 Maybe ask Prof-lofi. Hes the experimental guy who recorded some ace outdoor stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick boo Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 ...I concur with the fact much accidental ambient noise is actually quite good and useable... My band wanted a track to have a nine minute industrial drone in the background, so we stuck a stereo mic to an accordian and strapped it to someone who went out into the street and played the note 'E' for 10 minutes. It was fantastic! Lorries, birdsong, snatches of car stereos as they passed, even converstaions from the street could all be messed with and had shiteloads of effects put on. Top hole!Depends what you want to actually record, I suppose. I've often found you can get old sound effects LPs with just the right thing on them, and they've already done the hard work for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted February 14, 2005 Report Share Posted February 14, 2005 Go Binaural, my good man...http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/category.cgi?category=binauralcardioidhttp://art.simon.tripod.com/stealth.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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