On 5th March 2013 one particular objective of the day at the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK, was to make a long recording on Hunter's Tor of the bamboo and both Gypsy chimes, because, owing to a silly little mixup, I missed out on doing that during my 18th February recording session there. However, that aim was to be thwarted, most likely by a little bit of 'operator error', and the 45minute recording that I thought I had made turned out back at home to be just one second of background noise However, while that recording was (not) running, I placed my second recorder in two other consecutive positions, one of which got me a moderately distant recording of the chimes from partway along the narrow southrunning crest of Hunter's Tor. Then, when I considered that time was up for the main recording (which, as I say, had actually not happened), I took that recorder and placed it on a minor hump that was overlooking the chimes from the north albeit the chimes actually not being visible from this position owing to various trees and large granite rocks / outcrops. This turned out to get a more 'distant' sound from the chimes than from the actually furtheraway recorder to the south. That would have been great, but there were really quite major interferences. Unlike in my 18th February recordings here, the wind was from the south, and was making traffic on the Moretonhampstead to Whiddon Down road distinctly audible something I most certainly did not want in any of my recordings. And then, partway through this recording a confounded cockerel associated with one of the farm cottages down in the woods to the west (the right side in this recording) started crowing. Whereas the cockerel in my February recordings here was very distant and too quiet to be a problem in the recordings, this one was loud and strident and very definitely a problem. Realistically, I could not cut out all that much traffic noise without having too little recording left and there was no way that I could sensibly clear out the cockerel, with its frequent and persistent crowings. (I would point out, though, that the main continuous rushing sound in the background is not traffic but the River Teign some distance below.) The net outcome of this is that from my perspective this and the other 'distant chimes' recording made here on this day are really not suitable for use in commercially produced CDs, and so for these particular recordings I make an exception to my general rule of only excerpts of my Wind Chimes in the Wild recordings on Freesound, and have uploaded the full recordings. Maybe some people would even enjoy the disturbances the traffic sounds and that effing cockerel The chimes used are bamboo chimes, large and small set (imprecisely tuned to a semblance of the whole tone scale) and Music of the Spheres Gypsy Chimes, Mezzo and Soprano sizes (tuned to a troubled and melancholysounding Eastern European Gypsy scale). http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingchimeshunterstor20130218_06.jpgMy 18th February recording session here. The only difference this time was that the Chimes of Pluto (silvery) were not being used, and I didn't realize that the recorder there was not recording For this recording the recorder was transferred to the top of a hump in the woods beyond the chimes in this view, overlooking them, but with trees and boulders / outcrops blocking actual visibility. 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, and also to correct for an audible 'hump' in the lower bass frequencies, which I get in ALL my recordings prior to processing. Please remember to give this recording a rating http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif
描述:2013年3月5日,在英国德文郡德鲁斯泰因顿的蒂恩峡谷,这一天的一个特别目标是在亨特托上对竹子和两个吉普赛风铃进行长时间的录音,因为,由于一个愚蠢的小混淆,我在2月18日的录音会议上错过了这样做。然而,这个目标被挫败了,很可能是由于一点 "操作失误",我以为我所做的45分钟的录音,回到家后发现只是一秒钟的背景噪音!"。然而,在这段录音(没有!)运行的时候,我把我的第二个录音机放在另外两个连续的位置上,其中一个让我从亨特托狭窄的南面山脊的部分位置上录到了适度遥远的钟声。 这本来是很好的,但真的有相当大的干扰。与我2月18日在这里的录音不同,风是从南边吹来的,使莫尔顿汉普斯特德到惠顿唐的公路上的车辆明显可闻这是我最不希望出现在我的任何录音中的。然后,在录音的过程中,一只与西边树林中的一个农场小屋有关的、令人困惑的公鸡(在这段录音中为左)开始啼叫。在我2月份的录音中,这只公鸡离我很远,而且太安静了,在录音中不会有什么问题,而这只公鸡却很响亮,非常明显,是一个问题。我确实剪掉了这段录音中受交通噪音影响最严重的部分,但实际上,我不可能剪掉那么多而不留下太多录音而且我也不可能理智地清除公鸡,因为它频繁而持续的鸣叫。(不过我想指出,背景中主要的连续奔腾的声音不是交通,而是下面一段距离的泰恩河。) 这样做的净结果是,从我的角度来看,这一天在这里做的这个和其他 "远处的风铃 "录音确实不适合用于商业化生产的CD,因此对于这些特殊的录音,我破例只摘录了我在Freesound上的野外的风铃录音,并将完整的录音上传。也许有些人甚至会喜欢这些干扰交通声、那只该死的公鸡更不用说还有一些狗在山谷里短暂地吠叫了! 所使用的风铃是竹制风铃,有大有小(不精确地调成全音阶的样子)和Music of the Spheres Gypsy Chimes, Mezzo and Soprano大小(调成听起来令人不安和忧伤的东欧吉普赛音阶)。 http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingchimeshunterstor20130218_06.jpg我2月18日在这里进行的录音。这次唯一不同的是,没有使用冥王星的风铃(银色),我没有意识到那里的录音机没有录音在这次录音中,最重要的第二台录音机就在这张照片中相机位置的后面,沿着Hunter's Tor狭窄的南向开阔的非木质山峰的一部分。 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,以纠正挡风玻璃造成的高频消音,同时也纠正了低频中可听到的 "驼峰",这是我在处理所有录音前得到的。 请记得给这个录音打分! http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif
描述:This is the first and longer of two additional recordings made with a second recorder, while my two consecutive 'main' chimes recordings were taking place at this spot. On 5th March 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. On this occasion, for the first hour of my walkin from Drewsteignton, I was greeted by unexpected lack of wind altogether. Fine for recording birds, but not for the chimes Then, rather resigning myself to recording birdsonly, and to my chimes being just a tiresome deadweight, out on the long mostly open and relatively level stretch of the Hunter's Path, high up on the north side of the steep sided valley, I noticed a particular nicely situated stunted oak tree that seemed to be beckoning me, pointing out to me that it had a nice arrangement of suitable branches, which would enable me to get the right balance between the different sets of chimes. All very well, but of course just for noting to use another time, for right now I'd look silly trying to record chimes with no wind Well, except that just that moment breaths of wind started coming on, just enough to make twigs move. And so it was that I set up here, with the wind gradually getting up and actually giving me a lovely performance from the chimes after all. There was more than one fly in the ointment, however, for a whole succession of mostly highaltitude aeroplanes came over, so I had to cut out quite a number of bits in this recording, and still there are some brief bits of very distant aeroplane sound in the edited recording and also, there must have been a tractor at work in the field that tops the hill on this side, for I could hear a quiet sortof nagnagnagging of very low frequency motor noise, which could not sensibly all be removed from the recordings. Despite that, though, I ended up with four very beautiful recordings from this spot two 'main' chimes recordings, and then two natural soundscape recordings with the chimes at a distance. As already noted, this is the first and longer of the two 'distant' recordings, and for this I used a Joby GorillaPod to seat the recorder on a tree branch on the other (uphill) side of the Hunter's Path, just a little further along, so probably about 25 metres from the 'main' chimes recorder position. It is thus a particularly quiet recording, and it would be a mistake to turn the volume up for this. I left this recording running when I took down the Pluto chimes for the second 'main' recording, and because that meant an intrusive disturbance in this recording, I chose, rather than break this recording into two, to simply cut out the disturbance. So, partway through, the tone of the chimes 'mysteriously' changes once the Pluto chimes are removed from the mix. You then hear just how intensely mysterious and melancholy the Gypsy chimes sound at a distance. The chimes used are bamboo chimes, large and small set (imprecisely tuned to a semblance of the whole tone scale), Woodstock Chimes of Pluto (tuned to a radiant 'happy' pentatonic scale), and Music of the Spheres Gypsy Chimes, Mezzo and Soprano sizes (tuned to a troubled and melancholysounding Eastern European Gypsy scale). The combination of the metal chimes sounds remarkably different from either on their own, and is very beautiful indeed. As for the birds in this recording, I am unable to name them all (as yet), though chaffinch, skylark, raven, pheasant and many others did figure. However, they sang less and less during my session at this position, so, rather late in the recording session, I then moved this recorder to a still more distant position further along the path (probably some 4050 metres away) for the second and much shorter 'distant' recording. This is a 5minute excerpt from the full 30 minutes' recording. (Later note: This recording with better sound than here is on one of my commercial CDs, and can be found in my eStore.)http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingchimesbymidhunterspath.jpgThis photo shows the second of the 'main' recordings taking place. Note the placement of the Gypsy chimes distinctly further back than the bamboo chimes, and the recorder fairly well back from them all in order to get a good balance. Recording made with a Sony PCMM10 on a Joby GorillaPod, 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, and also to correct for an audible 'hump' in the lower bass frequencies, which I get in ALL my recordings prior to processing. Please remember to give this recording a rating http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif
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 became a bit overpowering albeit quite briefly. This was primarily the case for this particular recording my first one at this spot because I had the recorder in a position that caught the wind just a little more. Well, that was my initial impression, but upon subsequent listening through my hifi system I have considerably uprated my assessment of this recording. Yes, some wind gusts are strong, but definitely within my limits of acceptability, and they simply give a greatly exhilarating effect. The sound of these particular chimes themselves is truly beautiful to my ears, at least in this setting, even though their sound is a dry staccato with no obvious 'sustain'. Indeed, I find the full 26minute recording unsatisfyingly SHORT, and I feel a certain regret at not having continued the recording to about 40 minutes I note the relative lack of interest in my bambooonly chimes recordings by visitors to my Freesound pages, and that is a pity, because they are missing something very beautiful because of the preconceptions they evidently have about bamboo chimes sound. 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 the bamboo Chimes only both large and small sets. It is a 5minute excerpt from the 26 minutes full recording. http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingchimes5setshunterstor1302181.jpgThis photo shows my highlevel recording studio for this particular day on Hunter's Tor. The sets of chimes visible are the bamboo chimes, Chimes of Pluto, and Gypsy Chimes (Soprano and Mezzo). In this recording only the bamboo chimes were used (hanging at the same positions as shown), but the recorder was a bit further from them, on the left hand side of the track that you see in the foreground, and that meant, as already noted, that it was picking up a bit more wind than it was in the photographed position. 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
描述:On 28th November 2012 I took out with me a large and a small set of cheap bamboo chimes and two sets of Music of the Spheres Gypsy (quality, metal) wind chimes the Soprano and Mezzo sizes, the sounds of which latter two mesh together beautifully. My intention was to hang the chimes on the same tree that I had used for my recordings a week earlier, at Sharp Tor, by the Hunter's Path, high up on the north side of the oversteepened part of the River Teign valley known as the Teign Gorge, Devon, UK. In the event the wind, being from a northeasterly direction this time, was not sufficiently reaching anywhere along there, and I finally reluctantly went higher up on the slope, almost to the top, where a chilly breeze was coming over and moving the tree branches a bit. I hung the chimes on one tree and made one recording, but after nearly 10 minutes of rather modest activity the wind got up more and then appeared to be too continuously on the strong side, so I then moved to a nearby tree that was not catching the wind so strongly, to make the further recordings, including this one. Being this high up was not ideal, for the sound of the River Teign in the valley bottom, although still audible, is heard only indirectly and faintly, so, when listening to the recording, it is difficult to tell what is the nature of the very faint continuous roar in the background. Also, here I was very close to the grazed pasture that covers the broad top of the hill, and a result of this is that all this day's recordings are punctuated by faint moos from distant cattle that were far away and out of sight. This recording is of the two sets of bamboo chimes, which I had purchased locally in Exeter for just a few pounds each, plus the Music of the Spheres Gypsy Chimes, Soprano size. The refined ethereal, 'liquid' tone and precise tuning of these metal Music of the Spheres chimes contrast beautifully with the dry, earthy rattlings, clatterings and 'donkings' of the bamboo chimes. Indeed, these Gypsy chimes, with their particular timbre and tuning to some sort of Eastern European scale, sound at a distance like some ghostly organ playing. People who passed by while I was making recordings with these chimes tended spontaneously to use the words 'haunting' and 'magical'. This is a 5minute excerpt from the 29+ minutes full recording. http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/chimesbamboogypsymezzorecordingaboveteigngorge450x405.jpgThis photo shows my recording studio for 28th November 2012 almost at the top of the north side of the Teign Gorge, and facing obliquely away from it. The sets of chimes visible are the large and small bamboo, with the Gypsy Mezzo in the middle.Note that actually this was a first time learning experience for me with the Gypsy chimes, and actually for best effects the Gypsy chimes needed to be about twice the distance from the recorder than I actually used on this particular day, on account of their having a stronger and more penetrating tone than my other chimes. Recording made with a Sony PCMM10 on a Hama minitripod, using the builtin microphones covered with a Rycote Mini Windjammer. I have used a graphic EQ profile in WavePad to compensate for the slight muffling of the sound caused by the Windjammer.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 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. N.B. Initially I gave all this day's recordings a 3dB cut of the lower bass to somewhat lighten the sound of the wind in the microphones, and so all the excerpts here from this day's recording have that bass reduction. However, subsequently, on careful listening, especially through my decent hifi speakers, I came to the conclusion that the wind noise in the microphones did not reach a level at which such processing was really necessary, and so I have subsequently restored those bass frequencies to the full recordings, with a distinct improvement in the sound as heard through my hifi speakers. Please remember to give this recording a rating http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/meicon_wink.gif