Wind Chimes In the Wild » River Teign with wind chimes Pluto excerpt

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作者:Philip Goddard
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描述:On 18th February 2013, past midday I had to retreat from my recording session on Hunter's Tor at the west end of the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK, because I was getting too cold in the brisk southeasterly wind. So I came down to the valley bottom and searched for a suitable place to hang some chimes by the River Teign, beside the Fisherman's Path. In the event there was too little wind there only the odd usable gust here and there and as a last resort I went upstream to just outside the woods of the Teign Gorge, into the beginning of the open fields that lead to the road at Dogmarsh Bridge. Initially the wind was moving the tree branches quite nicely here, but I think Sod's Law was operating, for as soon as I got my first recording started, the wind eased off, and then it came generally only in the odd gentle breaths, with only a rare really useful gust, and those gusts indeed petered out altogether during the second of the three recordings I made here. However, all was by no means lost, as this was a nice bit of serendipity. I'd wanted one thing and simply got another. It was logistically impossible for me to get the recorder and chimes in the right relative positions for the sort of recording I was after, and so the water sound is louder than I was really intending, and drowns out the quieter tones from the chimes, and also drowns out all but the closest bird sounds. This is the first in the series of three recordings made here, and it has the most chimes sound, though virtually no noticeable bird sound. However, all three recordings make a very nice set of a gently turbulent river sound, with little bits of chimes sound and bird sounds (the latter in the other two recordings). I guess that people who are looking for sounds with which to go to sleep would really like these three recordings and prefer them to the 'friskier' type of wind chimes recording that I actually aim to produce. http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingchimesplutogypsybyteign1302182.jpgMy recording studio for this set of recordings, by the River Teign just entering the Teign Gorge. The recorder was actually rather closer to the chimes than it looks in this photo. The chimes are the Gypsy Mezzo and Soprano (black tubes) and the Pluto chimes (silvery tubes, here looking brassy because of the colours they are reflecting). The chimes in this recording are the Woodstock Chimes of Pluto, tuned to a radiant and 'happy' sounding pentatonic scale. This is a 5minute excerpt from the 9+ minutes full recording. Recording made with a Sony PCMM10 on a Velbon minitripod, using the builtin microphones covered with a Rode Dead Kitten windshield. I have used Audacity to apply a custom EQ profile to correct for the high frequency muffling caused by the windshield. Please note that only very good speakers / headphones with a very extended and flat frequency response will do this recording real justice. Please also note that the volume level of this recording has been carefully adjusted for listening purposes, and ALL my recordings so far are meant to be listened to with a volume setting that would give a realistic level for playback of CLASSICAL music (a large but not exceptional symphony orchestra). If you have the right volume setting, you should not need to change that setting from one recording of mine to another. Please remember to give this recording a rating http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif
标签: Teignvalley water river ChimesofPluto RiverTeign UK Devon TeignGorge naturalsoundscape Woodstock Drewsteignton windchimes winter nature fieldrecording England windchimes February chimes
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描述:2012年11月21日,我带着一大一小两套廉价的竹制风铃和两套Woodstock(优质金属)风铃出门。我把风铃挂在夏普托的一棵位置特别好的矮树的小树枝上,就在猎人之路旁边,那里可以俯瞰过陡的山谷(俗称提恩峡谷,虽然它实际上不是一个峡谷),非常靠近德罗戈城堡。实际上,这块岩石挡住了谷底提恩河的视线和最直接的声音,在这个地方,我有必要把录音机朝向另一个方向,背对着猎人之路。 这一天,提恩河的背景声音其实比平时要大不少,因为一夜之间下了一场特殊的雨,造成当地相当普遍的洪水事件,因此今天的河流都非常满。 这段录音是我在埃克塞特当地购买的两套竹制风铃,每套只花了几英镑,另外还有Woodstock Gregorian Chimes和Chimes of Pluto。这两套竹制编钟的调音都不准确,但尽管如此,大编钟还是给出了一些全音阶的雏形(与其他编钟一起使用时,听起来一定很有趣),而小编钟虽然在调音上看起来更不确定,但在大编钟的范围内加入了三音和其他 "有趣 "的音阶。我总是选择将两套竹编钟放在一起使用。这种组合有一种有趣的、"泥土 "般的声音,对我的耳朵来说,听起来不错,但与我的一些金属风铃结合起来,也会产生非常有趣的效果,至少我自己觉得非常漂亮。 格雷戈里风铃是男高音版本,按照格雷戈里圣歌的音阶精确调音。冥王星风铃较小,因此声音较高,是按照明亮的五声音阶进行调音的。这些金属伍德斯托克风铃精致空灵的 "液体 "音色和精确的调音,与竹制风铃干燥、朴实的嘎嘎声和 "咚咚 "声形成鲜明对比。 这是29分钟完整录音中的5分钟节选。 http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/chimesgregorianplutorecordingsharptordrogo500x375.jpg这张照片显示了我2012年11月21日的录音室在蒂恩峡谷北侧高处的夏普托。可以看到的钟声是Woodstock Gregorian Chimes和Chimes of Pluto. 用索尼PCMM10在Hama迷你三脚架上进行录音,用Rycote迷你Windjammer覆盖内置麦克风。我在WavePad中使用了一个图形均衡器配置文件来补偿Windjammer造成的轻微消音。我提醒大家,当这段录音通过容易产生轰鸣的扬声器/耳机播放时,麦克风中的风噪必然会听起来过于刺耳;要想让这些录音真正听起来,确实需要质量好的高保真扬声器,并具有扩展和平整的低音响应。请注意,这段录音的音量是经过仔细调整的,到目前为止,我所有的录音都是要用一个音量设置来听的,这个音量设置可以为古典音乐(一个大型但不特别的交响乐团)的播放提供一个真实的水平。如果你有正确的音量设置,你应该不需要从我的一个录音中改变这个设置。(后记:这段录音声音比这里好在我的一张商业CD上,可以在我的电子商店。)
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描述:这段录音是在2013年3月5日制作的,实际上是我在另一台录音机(应该)在树林边缘录制超级大风铃时进行的二次录音。然而,那段录音从未发生过,因为出现了一些故障,直到我回到家才发现,我所拥有的 "45分钟 "的风铃录音只是一段一秒钟的背景声音。也许是我笨手笨脚地按下了暂停键,没有仔细看清楚,我无意中多按了一下,就重新暂停了录音。 英国德文郡德鲁斯泰因顿的蒂恩峡谷的猎人山峰,是一个狭窄的相当多的岩石山峰,从猎人路向南延伸,只有轻微的海拔变化,从一般陡峭的谷坡上突出来,最后悬崖勒马,进入蒂恩河旁的渔人路北侧的低矮林坡。如果能在猎人山顶的这个南端录制风铃就好了,但树木被限制在该山顶的北端,所以我的风铃录音(据说!)是在那里进行的,现在我可以在南端这里的某个地方设置录音机,以获得不同的视角。在这里,泰恩河的声音更强,但我没有必要把录音机放在猎人山的 "鼻子 "上,因为那里风太大了。后来我发现,我可以在左侧的一个地方(向南看)合理地避开风,从最后的岩石上退下来,把录音机放在那里。另外,有趣的是,从这个地方听河水的声音似乎要近得多不仅声音大,而且更有细节,确实让人觉得比实际情况更近。 在这个地方,河水的声音有两个主要部分。有一个连续的 "白色噪音 "元素,在正前方(即可能低于我的水平线35到40度),还有水的 "咿呀声",从这个连续的声音向左延伸,远离录音机。这是因为我们直接俯瞰着Drogo Weir(尽管隐藏在树木之下),正是它产生了连续的声音,而潺潺声则从它的下游延伸出来。 我们离我挂风铃的树足够远,你几乎听不到风铃的声音尽管人们有时必然会潜移默化地听到它们。同样,我们离那些树也很远,不可能经常听到那里的鸟叫声,所以在这段录音中,鸟叫声相当稀少,尽管那里的鸟叫声感觉有相当明显的效果。在录音的后期,有一次出现了一个奇怪的短暂的声音,似乎是动物发出的,我怀疑这是一个非常短暂的接近大黄蜂或类似的声音。 用索尼PCMM10在Hama迷你三脚架上进行录音,使用内置的麦克风,用Rode Dead Kitten防风罩覆盖。我使用Audacity应用了一个定制的EQ配置文件,以纠正挡风玻璃造成的轻微高频衰减,并纠正低频中的广泛 "驼峰",这在我所有的录音中最初都是可以听到的。 请注意,这段录音的音量是经过仔细调整的,到目前为止,我所有的录音都是为了在播放古典音乐(大型但不特别的交响乐团)时,能有一个真实的音量设置来听。如果你有正确的音量设置,你应该不需要从我的一个录音中改变这个设置。(后记:这段录音声音比这里好在我的一张商业CD上,可以在我的电子商店 。) 请记得给这个录音评分! http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif
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描述:2013年3月5日下午,我在英国德文郡德鲁斯泰因顿的提恩河边录制鸟类和风铃,就在通往多格玛什桥的公路的开阔地的起点。 录音中出现了一些干扰,使我不得不剪掉一些片段,但这个来自低空飞行的喷气式飞机的短暂可怕的入侵是最壮观的。 用索尼PCMM10在Hama迷你三脚架上进行录音,用Rode Dead Kitten防风罩覆盖的内置话筒。我使用Audacity应用了一个自定义的EQ配置文件来纠正挡风玻璃造成的高频消音。 请记得给这个录音打分! http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif
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描述:2013年2月18日,过了中午,我不得不从英国德文郡德鲁斯泰恩峡谷西端的亨特托(Hunter's Tor)的录音中撤退,因为在急促的东南风中我太冷了。于是我来到谷底,在渔夫之路旁边的提恩河边寻找一个合适的地方悬挂风铃。结果那里的风太小了只有零星的可用的阵风作为最后的手段,我逆流而上,来到提恩河峡谷的树林外,进入通往多格玛什桥的公路的开阔地的起点。起初,风在这里很好地吹动了树枝,但我认为 "索德法则 "在起作用,因为当我开始第一次录音时,风就减弱了,然后它一般只在零星的温和呼吸中出现,只有罕见的真正有用的阵风,而那些阵风在我在这里进行的三次录音中的第二次确实完全消失了。 然而,一切都没有失去,因为这是一个很好的偶然事件。我想要一件东西,但却得到了另一件。从逻辑上讲,我不可能把录音机和风铃放在正确的相对位置,以达到我想要的录音效果,因此水声比我真正想要的要大,淹没了风铃的安静音调,也淹没了除了最近的鸟声之外的所有声音。然而,所有这三段录音都是一套非常好的温柔湍急的河水声,还有一点钟声和鸟鸣声。 这是这里的三张录音系列中的最后一张,它的风铃声最少,但至少作为补偿,鸟声反而更明显。我猜想,那些正在寻找可以入睡的声音的人,会非常喜欢这三段录音,而且比我实际要制作的 "更刺激 "类型的风铃录音更喜欢它们。 http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingchimesplutogypsybyteign1302182.jpg我录制这组录音的工作室,在刚进入蒂恩峡谷的蒂恩河边。录音机实际上比照片上看起来更靠近风铃。这些风铃是Gypsy Mezzo和Soprano(黑色管子)和Pluto风铃(银色的管子,在这里因为反射的颜色而显得很刺眼)。 这段录音中的风铃是Music of the Spheres Gypsy Mezzo和Soprano风铃,按东欧吉普赛音阶调音。 这是32分钟以上的完整录音中的5分钟节选。 用索尼PCMM10在Velbon迷你三脚架上进行录音,使用内置的麦克风,用Rode Dead Kitten防风罩覆盖。我使用Audacity应用了一个自定义的EQ配置文件来纠正挡风玻璃造成的高频消音。 请注意,只有非常好的扬声器/耳机具有非常宽广和平坦的频率响应,才能使这段录音真正公正。 还请注意,这段录音的音量已经被仔细调整过了,到目前为止,我所有的录音都是要用一个音量设置来听的,这个音量设置可以为古典音乐(一个大型但不特别的交响乐团)的播放提供一个真实的水平。如果你有正确的音量设置,你应该不需要从我的一个录音中改变这个设置。 请记得给这个录音打分! http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif
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描述:这是我于2013年3月5日下午在英国德文郡德鲁斯泰因顿的提恩河边录制的两段风铃中的第二段,就在它进入提恩河峡谷的上游。风力逐渐减弱,所以在这次录音中,风铃不是很活跃,所以它主要是记录河流和鸟鸣,偶尔有轻柔的风铃活动。 http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingchimesbyteign130305generalview.jpg我这组录音的录音室,在刚进入蒂恩峡谷的蒂恩河边,前面是林立的山坡。这些风铃是Gypsy Mezzo和Soprano(都是黑色的管子)以及Chimes of Pluto(银色的管子),后者在这次录音中没有使用。 本录音中的风铃是Music of the Spheres Gypsy Mezzo和Soprano风铃,按东欧吉普赛音阶调音。 这次我吸取了2月份在这里录音的经验,把风铃挂在了另一棵树上,树枝的排列使我能得到更好的声音平衡,同时也因为蒂恩河本身现在更低,所以更安静。此外,我还想在风铃上获得各种不那么近的、甚至是遥远的视角。因此,我把录音机放在离风铃较远的地方,特别是吉普赛风铃,因为它们的音色具有穿透力和 "携带性"。结果,所有的声音元素之间达到了非常美丽和 "甜美 "的平衡这是我在做现场录音时往往不容易做到的。 这是24分钟以上的完整录音中的5分钟节选。 (后记:这段录音声音比这里好在我的一张商业CD上,可以在我的电子商店。)
by soundmary
来源Freesound
描述:流动的河水
by soundmary
来源Freesound
描述:流动的河水
来源Freesound
描述:On 18th February 2013 I took out with me a large and a small set of cheap bamboo chimes and three sets of quality metal wind chimes, to my regular field recording location for wind chimes the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK. This time, however, a brisk and fairly cold southeasterly wind drove me away from spots that would have been suitable on previous occasions, and this time eventually I settled for Hunter's Tor, a southrunning rather rocky crest and spur that bounds the north side of the west end of the Teign Gorge. This was about half the height from the valley bottom as compared with my previous recording spots here, and a result of this was that my recordings here got more bird sound, which was an improvement. However, the spot still turned out not to be ideal, in that, for a start, the recording was picking up some unwanted sounds from the fringing countryside. A distant cockerel belonging to one of the farm cottages down among the woods out to the west (straight ahead in the recording) kept crowing, and there was some power saw activity at times far away to the south. For the most part I removed parts of my recordings here in which the power saw was audible, though I think there is still a trace of it buried in a few of the noisier parts where the chimes were very active. As for the cockerel, although I didn't really want it, I had little option but to accept it as 'part of the scenery'. Also, the wind gusts were sometimes a bit too strong against the recorder, so that, despite its windshield, the microphone wind noise did become a bit more intrusive than I would have chosen albeit quite briefly and still just about within my own 'acceptable' range. I hung the chimes on small low branches of a particular well situated stunted tree, and had the recorder facing west, so that the fairly distant rushing sound of the River Teign well below was to the left. However, that sound is also combined with a general distant rushing sound of wind in the trees on the valley slopes which is why its volume does vary during the recordings. This recording is of ALL the chimes I brought out, so this is quite a 'symphony' I set up both large and small sets of bamboo chimes to be closest to the recorder, with the Woodstock Chimes of Pluto (tuned to a bright and 'happy' pentatonic scale) a little behind and to their right, and the Music of the Spheres Gypsy Soprano and Mezzo chimes (tuned to an Eastern European Gypsy scale) placed rather further back on account of their more forceful and penetrating tone. The interaction of the two scales produces an intriguing effect, which seems to radically change the nature of both scales and produce a sound different from either. This is a 5minute excerpt from the 76 minutes full recording. Although this recording, played back on my hifi system does sound to me extremely beautiful and engaging, with very detailed and often very delicate sound, the balance between the metal and bamboo chimes is not quite as I originally intended. That is because, for logistical reasons, I had to accept the bamboo chimes being just a bit more 'forward' in the sound stage than I had intended, so they come out at times a bit more aggressively in the recording than I originally intended. If I had moved the recorder further back in order to improve the balance, it would have had to be placed on the other side of the track (see photo below), and I was already aware that my first recording of this session, with the recorder in exactly that position, must have suffered because of the recorder's greater wind exposure there. I couldn't change the positions of the chimes in order to adjust the balance, because I was already using the five really workable hanging points (i.e. that were in reach for me), and those, being on tree branches, were naturally nonadjustable. However, having said that, on further listenings to this recording on my hifi system I am impressed by an exquisite beauty about this whole 'symphonic' show, and regard it as a wonderful partial serendipity such as authentic field recordings are inclined to bring. I had succeeded nicely in my intent to have a slightly more distant perspective on the Gypsy chimes, and I have succeeded in getting the Pluto chimes well balanced with them. The forwardness of the bamboo chimes actually works out very nicely, emphasizing a certain distance from and remoteness of the metal chimes. I find myself focusing sometimes on the bamboo sound, full of wholetone scale and tritone colour, and sometimes on the metal, so gaining more variety of experience from the nearly 76minute full recording. Also, that confounded cockerel, which got my goat so much while I was making the recording, is only just audible and thus not at all the problem that I thought it would be. And additionally, my relistening leaves me wondering where the supposedly overstrong wind gusts were, for actually, in my books, I could hardly have got a better and more satisfying range of wind and chimes sound at this particular spot http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif As to why the full recording is so long that was not intended, and was a result of a most silly and frustrating little confusion. It is actually two consecutive recordings there, joined together. I had recorded about 45 minutes of all the chimes, and my intention was then to record the same minus the Chimes of Pluto which combination would have sounded very different. However, after I'd pressed the recorder's Stop button, I was dismayed to see that the last recording was file number 1 because I had started off with a recording of the bamboo chimes only, prior to that one, and so the apparent implication was that the supposedly just completed recording had actually never happened. I therefore assumed that when I thought I was starting the recording of all the chimes, I must have done something silly like pressing Stop instead of Pause. And so, mentally effing and blinding and gnashing and wailing, I set to, repeating the recording, because a reasonably long recording of the whole ensemble was the top priority. But then, as that recording neared completion I remembered a pertinent little point I'd clean forgotten about in the heat of my surprise at seeing file number 1 as being the last recording. I'd actually come out with two of the recorders, and I'd made the first recording on No. 1, after which that recorder's battery level indicator started flashing, and as my fingers were painfully cold I chose to change over to No. 2 recorder, just to avoid messing around changing batteries. So, of course my second recording was indeed file number 1 on recorder No. 2 So, what I lost was not the original full ensemble one but the opportunity for recording the whole lot minus the Pluto chimes (I had to move on then as I was getting too cold). http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingchimes5setshunterstor1302181.jpgThis photo shows my highlevel recording studio for this particular day on Hunter's Tor, while this recording was taking place. The sets of chimes visible are the bamboo chimes, Chimes of Pluto (right, silvery), and Gypsy Chimes (Soprano, left, and Mezzo) beyond (with the black tubes). Recording made with a Sony PCMM10 on a Velbon Mini Tripod, using the builtin microphones covered with a Rode Dead Kitten windshield. I have used a graphic EQ profile in Audacity to compensate for the slight muffling of the sound caused by the windshield. I caution that the wind noise in the microphones is bound to sound too intrusive when this recording is played back through speakers / headphones that are prone to boominess; good quality hifi speakers with extended and flat bass response are really needed for any of these recordings really to sound right. Please note that the volume level of this recording has been carefully adjusted for listening purposes, and ALL my recordings so far are meant to be listened to with a volume setting that would give a realistic level for playback of CLASSICAL music (a large but not exceptional symphony orchestra). If you have the right volume setting, you should not need to change that setting from one recording of mine to another.(Later note: This recording with better sound than here is on one of my commercial CDs, and can be found in my eStore.) Please remember to give this recording a rating http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif
by worthahep88
by worthahep88