I spent a fair amount of time assembling my tools and then went to it, what follows is a brief synopsis of what I got.
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Morning Rise.
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Tools of the Trade: Trusty PowerBook, Rode NTG-2, Sennheiser HD-285, and various implements of noise making.
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How to mic a pile of brush: Position stand away from possible falling limbs, press record, jump up and down, bonus points for falling through brush and into squirrel nest.
Coincidentally, now I know how they came up with sound of Georges beard growing in the Yellow Submarine!
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Found this beauty of a log, mic'd it up and proceeded to chop/hack/slice/swing/saw it into oblivion. I leave behind the screams of treebark and the scars of my torture.
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Nothing fancy, yo heave ho. The rocks and leaves make for an added level of detail, along with the dramatic flinging of debris.
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Not since I was a wee lad have I had cause to bust out the old bow and arrow, was good to get it out and put it through it's paces. Culled 3 different sounds out of this session: bow release, impact, and debris. The mossy stump proved the perfect surface for eliciting a fine impact thud and debris scatter.
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Mucky Muck, indeed! The sound of squishy-ness!
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I love the sound of wet grass in the morning.
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Like dry sand through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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Wet sand has a bit more squish to it than you'd think, but when comparing the 2 types , wet sand is a bit crunchier,
Still have a fair amount of work to do whittling these down into a suitable library to work with, but the raw material for exciting noise adventures is there.
Next time, water sounds and other foresty goodness.
Stay Tuned
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