Decisions

Soon I will have to make some decisions. As well as fine suitable locations where to carry out my plans. When I was recording these Spring Peepers, they were close to an intersection with traffic coming and going all ways. It was not very busy, but this was a spot where I could find Spring Peepers.

Recording a swamp

Spring Peepers are tiny tree frogs, making a very specific sound in spring.

Ambience and EQ

Often enough, as a recordist, you encounter a sound that just begs to be recorded. But it comes with “extras”, background noise, cars, or most likely some dark background rumble we don’t even hear ourselves.

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Imagine this bird (not the same as in the recording, granted.

Connected!

For a while now, I have presented different audio clips, with or without visual connection. When you do field recording, you end up with a lot of awesome sounds. Sometimes you would like that sound to be the sound track of some video.

Simple setup

So the first thought is to simply overlay the sound to a silent video track and present it as an old-fashioned slide show.

Relaxing on the beach

Well, relaxing for as much as possible on a beach in Canada in winter. While the swimming attire had to wait at home, the weather was nice enough to present some waves on a beach with rocks. Every field recordist has something like that in his/her collection, right?

Rode M5

For me, this was an opportunity to try out something new.