{"id":1458,"date":"2010-06-03T21:51:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T04:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2010-06-03T21:51:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T04:51:04","slug":"of-noise-and-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/03\/of-noise-and-crows\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Noise and Crows"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Crows\"

Recording crows...it's murder, I tell ya.<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to SocialSoundDesign.com<\/a>, I’ve discovered the joys of iZotope RX<\/a>, an amazing noise reduction tool that has made real one of my hopes: To capture reasonably clean sounds in my own back yard. I live pretty close to a major highway<\/a>, so getting usable recordings has been impossible up until recently.<\/p>\n

A neighbor’s willow tree harbors a very chatty and schizophrenic-sounding European Starling<\/a>. While recording some of its yammering, a crow flew in, circled over me three or four times not more than 20 feet overhead, and then left, as if to warn me that I was too close to the community tree in Birdsville. I tracked him with my mic as he flew. Well, after that, I packed it in. It wasn’t going to get better than that.<\/p>\n

The sounds of the background are still there, of course, but much less prominently than they were. The crow was close enough and I tracked accurately enough that while there’s a volume dropoff, there’s not a lot of apparent Dopplering. The caws are fairly shrill, so don’t turn this up too<\/em> loud. (Note: From a sound design standpoint, pitch shifting crow vocalizations down doesn’t sound that interesting. They sound like asthmatic dogs coughing up a cat’s hairball, and not in a good way.)<\/p>\n

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\n[Sennheiser MKH 50\/30 mid-side stereo pair with into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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