{"id":2024,"date":"2011-01-20T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2011-01-20T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:56:18","slug":"the-cries-of-mr-heater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/the-cries-of-mr-heater\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cries of Mr. Heater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2052\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2052\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2052\" title=\"mrHeater\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mrHeater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mrHeater.jpg 240w, https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mrHeater-216x290.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Heater, the oddest and loudest camping stove ever.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the guys at <a href=\"http:\/\/stimulant.io\" target=\"_blank\">work<\/a> loves camping gadgets (as do I), and he shared a video of his odd little Mr. Heater camp stove making some weird unholy racket. Naturally, I asked to borrow it and did some recording sessions with it over the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>A metal reflector lets the unit be used as either a heater or a camp stove. This ring of steel doesn&#8217;t make much sound when it&#8217;s running (all you hear is the hiss of gas emission, much like <a href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/26\/gas-lantern\/\" target=\"_blank\">this recording<\/a>), but it sure resonates when the stove fires up, starting as one tone and diverging into two separate tones, creating a harmony. Very effective or driving away bears, or as a means for summoning the dead.<\/p>\n<p>The only processing applied to this sound is some noise reduction to minimize the gas regulator&#8217;s hiss, to pull the resonance forward. Recorded at 192kHz, a clip like this is ripe for pitch shifting for even scarier tones! (Mic placement was tricky; placing the mics right in front would melt them instantly.)<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/9154382&#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;\">[Sennheiser MKH 50\/30 pair, rigged for mid-side stereo, into a Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the guys at work loves camping gadgets (as do I), and he shared a video of his odd little Mr. Heater camp stove making some weird unholy racket. Naturally, I asked to borrow it and did some recording sessions with it over the holidays. A metal reflector lets the unit be used as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,4],"tags":[10,75,22,94,29,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"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=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}