On 5th March 2013 I took out with me a load of wind chimes, to my regular field recording location for wind chimes the Teign Gorge, Drewsteignton, Devon, UK. This time, however, although a moderate to fresh southeast wind was expected, for the first hour I was greeted by virtually complete calm and, well, birds singing So I didn't rush on to the sort of places where I might hang wind chimes (looking silly, trying to record them with no wind), and, on the Hunter's Path just past my closest point to Fingle Bridge (and high up above it), I set up on the very steep slope there to take a recording of the birds, with the rushing sound of the River Teign tumbling over rocks far down below. This recording, then, is the outcome. The birds were mostly not very close, and hence the recording being quiet. It is just peaceful and refreshing. http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/hunterspathwoodsabovefinglebridge.jpgThe Hunter's Path, high up on the steep sided Teign 'Gorge'. Fingle Bridge is way down at the bottom, more or less straight ahead in this photo. The recorder was on the slope below the track, but just behind me in this view.http://www.broadhorizonnature.co.uk/recordingbyhunterspathwoodsabovefinglebridge.jpgThe recorder very small and inconspicuous in this grand setting, its Rode Dead Kitten windshield showing up as it is a very light grey. 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. 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 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
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: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