{"id":1891,"date":"2010-10-28T21:11:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T04:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2010-10-28T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T04:14:06","slug":"the-bear-locker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/the-bear-locker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bear Locker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1893\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1893\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1893 \" title=\"bearlocker\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bearlocker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bearlocker.jpg 580w, https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bearlocker-290x189.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer, toiletries, ice chest, field recorders. Yep, that&#39;s a well-stocked camping trip!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The metal bearproof food locker is a common sight in the developed campgrounds of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They&#8217;re infamously noisy to open, close, and move things around in, and are usually the first sounds you hear in the morning. They do their job, though&#8230;provided you have them closed. I once had a close encounter with a bear whose head was stuck right into my slightly open bear locker (in my defense, it was in the midst of dinner preparation), but that&#8217;s another story for another blog.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided to record one on a trip this summer. It was a kayaking trip, so I had both my Zoom H2 <span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>[yeah, this is an older sound]<\/em><\/span> and a hydrophone, so I decided to use both: The Zoom would get the stereo effects and the hydrophone would pick up the raw vibrations. I placed the H2 horizontally centered in the locker, and placed the hydrophone on the single shelf inside. Holy resonance, Batman!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s sound is a collection of hits from this outdoors session, made with hands, metal objects, and a rubber mallet, first at normal pitch and then an octave lower. It wound up mixing rather well with my collection of shovel-in-wheelbarrow sounds from a while back.\u00c2\u00a0Get those subwoofers ready for the second half&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/6510828&#8243; params=&#8221;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=ee0000&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; ]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">[Zoom H2 (120\u00c2\u00b0 capsule spread),  Aquarian Audio H2a-XLR hydrophone into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The metal bearproof food locker is a common sight in the developed campgrounds of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They&#8217;re infamously noisy to open, close, and move things around in, and are usually the first sounds you hear in the morning. They do their job, though&#8230;provided you have them closed. I once had a close encounter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,63],"tags":[9,10,62,75,22,55,260,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}