On 6th February 2013 I took out with me to the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK, a set of Woodstock Gregorian Tenor Chimes and two sets of Music of the Spheres Gypsy wind chimes. I was aiming for another full day's recording near the top of the woods above Fingle Bridge and indeed I did last out for a full morning there but then I had to pack up and flee because the air temperature was only about 4 degrees, with some windchill factor as well, and my hands and feet were causing me stress through being so painfully cold. I thought that I'd finished recording for the day, but got down to the much more sheltered Fisherman's Path by the River Teign at the west end of the steepsided part of the valley, turning back downstream along that path just a little, and it was sufficiently sheltered and sunny just by the very noisy Drogo Weir (with fish ladder) for me to sit on a wooden seat there and at last eat my packed lunch my hands having warmed up by then. Then I started noticing that actually some modest gusts of wind were coming from the west along the very bottom of the valley here (the general wind direction being northerly), and so as soon as I'd finished eating I tried experimentally putting up and recording a set of chimes in a sequence of different positions beside the river just a little downstream from the weir (an even moderately close recording of the latter itself would have been too noisy for a pleasant 'listenable' recording). http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/teignweir130218.jpgDrogo Weir, photographed a couple of weeks later, with probably less than half the flow than was occurring for the current recording. This, then, and the other recordings in this particular sequence, was very much of an experiment, with a quite loud river noise and the chimes sound tending to be buried within the river sound except when wind gusts came along and made the chimes more frisky. This recording, and its other 'siblings' taken at this location, then, needs to be perceived NOT a failed chimes recording, but a recording of the river sound with chimes in the midst of it. This recording is distinctly whitenoisy owing to proximity to the weir (on the right). Generally I would want quieter river sound against the chimes, but actually I had little choice here, because when I sought to get just slightly up the slope, a little more removed from the river, I lost the wind, and so could not use the chimes there anyway. But in any case this was an interesting experiment, and I could come back here another time with more favourable wind conditions and get a more restful balance of river and chimes. The chimes in this recording are the Woodstock Gregorian Tenor Chimes, tuned to a Gregorian chant scale, which gives them a bright and 'grand' sound. This is a 5minute excerpt from the 13+ 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.(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
描述：2013年2月6日，我带着一套Woodstock Gregorian Tenor Chimes和两套Music of the Spheres Gypsy wind chimes来到英国德文郡德鲁斯泰格顿的Teign Gorge。我的目标是在芬格桥上面的树林顶上再录一整天事实上我确实在那里坚持了一上午但后来我不得不收拾东西逃走了，因为空气温度只有4度左右，还有一些风寒因素，我的手和脚因为太过寒冷而给我造成了压力
描述：2013年2月6日，我带着一套Woodstock Gregorian Tenor Chimes和两套Music of the Spheres Gypsy wind chimes来到了英国德文郡德鲁斯泰格顿的Teign Gorge。我的目标是在芬格桥上面的树林顶上再录一整天事实上我确实在那里坚持了一上午但后来我不得不收拾东西逃走了，因为空气温度只有4度左右，还有一些风寒因素，我的手和脚因为太过寒冷而给我造成了压力
描述：2013年2月6日，我带着一套Woodstock Gregorian Tenor Chimes和两套Music of the Spheres Gypsy wind chimes来到了英国德文郡德鲁斯泰格顿的Teign Gorge。我的目标是在芬格桥上面的树林顶上再录制一整天事实上我确实在那里坚持了整整一个上午但后来我不得不收拾东西逃走，因为气温只有4度左右，还有一些风寒因素，我的手和脚因为太过寒冷而给我造成了压力
描述：2013年2月6日，我带着一套Woodstock Gregorian Tenor Chimes和两套Music of the Spheres Gypsy wind chimes来到英国德文郡德鲁斯泰格顿的Teign Gorge。我的目标是在芬格桥上面的树林顶上再录制一整天事实上我确实在那里坚持了整整一个上午但后来我不得不收拾东西逃走，因为气温只有4度左右，还有一些风寒因素，我的手和脚因为太过寒冷而给我造成了压力
描述：On 6th February 2013 I took out with me to the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK, a set of Woodstock Gregorian Tenor Chimes and two sets of Music of the Spheres Gypsy wind chimes the Soprano and Mezzo sizes, the sounds of which latter two mesh together beautifully. I was actually expecting a gale as I experienced for my recordings a week before, especially as there had been a gale overnight, but in fact the wind had eased down to a mere 'strong' (force 6 on the Beaufort scale), but it was colder than last time, so this was bound to be more challenging for me (I have Raynaud's disease, the cold extremities problem). Because of my expectations of a gale, I made for the same spot as last week near the top of the track ascending through the valleyside woods to join the Hunters' Path just as it emerges from the woods at the top. This proved still to get a very useful variation of wind strength to work the chimes, also with very nice sound as the wind gusts came through the trees but generally nothing as spectacularly dramatic as I'd had last week. I did actually try combining Gregorian and Gypsy Chimes but these turned out to be incompatible, together producing a chaotic discordant gibberish, and I deleted the two recordings I made with that combination but fortunately I then went on to make the best of what I had taken out this day, and the resultant recordings have turned out quite beautifully, with a nice background sound from the River Teign far below, and the periodic larger gusts of wind coming through the trees having a lovely detail of sound and helping to give the soundscape a particularly threedimensional quality. This recording is of the Music of the Spheres Gypsy Mezzo chimes, tuned to an Eastern European Gypsy scale, which gives them a hauntingly doleful sound. One curious thing is that the Gypsy chimes (only) at this particular spot on this particular day produced an odd nonmusical tapping sound at each strike of the tubes on the central 'striker' something very apparent in this recording. I had not heard that sound in my previous recordings of these chimes, including those made with the Gypsy Chimes hanging on the very same branches last week really quite weird, and I'm baffled as to the cause of that. Both the Gypsy sets were doing that, but not the Gregorian chimes, and also my afternoon recording of the Gypsy Soprano chimes down below, by the River Teign, did not produce that tapping sound at all. Just maybe I wonder if this was a temperature thing, and the air temperature of about 4 degrees C in this high position was just low enough to change the physical properties of those chimes' strikers to cause that tapping sound. This is a 5minute excerpt from the 20+ minutes full recording. http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingnrtopofwoodsabovefinglebridge.jpgThis photo shows my recording studio for this occasion, but taken the previous week during my gale sequence almost at the top of the north side of the Teign Gorge, and facing obliquely over the valley, so that the gusts of wind come from the right and then some come swirling around here before they continue across or down into the valley as they will. The sets of chimes visible are the Gypsy Mezzo (left, and further away) and the Pluto (right, not used this time).http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/trackhighabovefinglebridge.jpgLooking the other way from near the top of the track ascending from Fingle Bridge, which latter is hidden way down below. The recorder is about 15 metres behind me, just a little down the slope from this track. 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.(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
描述：On 6th February 2013 I took out with me to the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK, a set of Woodstock Gregorian Tenor Chimes and two sets of Music of the Spheres Gypsy wind chimes the Soprano and Mezzo sizes, the sounds of which latter two mesh together beautifully. I was actually expecting a gale as I experienced for my recordings a week before, especially as there had been a gale overnight, but in fact the wind had eased down to a mere 'strong' (force 6 on the Beaufort scale), but it was colder than last time, so this was bound to be more challenging for me (I have Raynaud's disease, the cold extremities problem). Because of my expectations of a gale, I made for the same spot as last week near the top of the track ascending through the valleyside woods to join the Hunters' Path just as it emerges from the woods at the top. This proved still to get a very useful variation of wind strength to work the chimes, also with very nice sound as the wind gusts came through the trees but generally nothing spectacularly dramatic as I had last week. I did actually try combining Gregorian and Gypsy Chimes but these turned out to be incompatible, together producing a chaotic discordant gibberish, and I deleted the two recordings I made with that combination but fortunately I then went on to make the best of what I had taken out this day, and the resultant recordings have turned out quite beautifully, with a nice background sound from the River Teign far below, and the periodic larger gusts of wind coming through the trees having a lovely detail of sound and helping to give the soundscape a particularly threedimensional quality. This recording is of the Music of the Spheres Gypsy Soprano and Mezzo chimes. As remarked for my November recordings of this combination, at a distance these chimes sound remarkably like some haunting ghostly organ playing. I deliberately placed them at a reasonable distance from the recorder to get a bit more of that effect. One curious thing is that the Gypsy chimes (only) at this particular spot on this particular day produced an odd nonmusical tapping sound at each strike of the tubes on the central 'striker' something very apparent in this recording. I had not heard that sound in my previous recordings of these chimes, including those made with the Gypsy Chimes hanging on the very same branches last week really quite weird, and I'm baffled as to the cause of that. Both the Gypsy sets were doing that, but not the Gregorian chimes, and also my afternoon recording of the Gypsy Soprano chimes down below, by the River Teign, did not produce that tapping sound at all. Just maybe I wonder if this was a temperature thing, and the air temperature of about 4 degrees C in this high position was just low enough to change the physical properties of those chimes' strikers to cause that tapping sound. This is a 5minute excerpt from the 32+ minutes full recording. http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingnrtopofwoodsabovefinglebridge.jpgThis photo shows my recording studio for this occasion, but taken the previous week during my gale sequence almost at the top of the north side of the Teign Gorge, and facing obliquely over the valley, so that the gusts of wind come from the right and then some come swirling around here before they continue across or down into the valley as they will. The sets of chimes visible are the Gypsy Mezzo (left, and further away) and the Pluto (right, not used this time).Note that the former being further away is not a bit of carelessness of mine, but a quite deliberate placement. I learnt from my first Gypsy Chimes recordings (back in November) that for best results they need to be placed further from the microphones than the Woodstock or bamboo chimes (at least, those that I have), on account of their more penetrating and potentially overpowering tone.http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/trackhighabovefinglebridge.jpgLooking the other way from near the top of the track ascending from Fingle Bridge, which latter is hidden way down below. The recorder is about 15 metres behind me, just a little down the slope from this track. 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.(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