{"id":3220,"date":"2015-10-12T20:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T03:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2015-10-12T20:48:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T03:48:14","slug":"fa-18-hornet-fly-bys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/fa-18-hornet-fly-bys\/","title":{"rendered":"F\/A-18 Hornet Fly-Bys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MY TAX DOLLARS…!!!!<\/p><\/div>\n

When I was a kid, I loved jets. Like most boys, I seemed to love vehicles of all sorts. That all waned as I got older, but fast fighter jets are pretty impressive machine…even if the US Navy’s Blue Angels<\/a> make my blood boil with their noise, and when I think that my tax dollars pay for all that jet fuel in their F\/A-18 Hornets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, as an audio recordist, jet fly-bys aren’t that easy to get on cue. So, every year, I try to record the Blue Angels over San Francisco during Fleet Week<\/a>. I always say I’ll go somewhere and record them, but life gets in the way on the weekends. But Thursday and Friday beforehand, they do practice runs over the city.<\/p>\n

I planned to go onto the roof of my workplace, but a bunch of tech hipsters got there first: Too much talking and reaction sounds. So I just stuck my Sony PCM-D50 <\/a>out the window, in a small channel between skyscrapers.<\/p>\n

When these things scream by, I was measuring between 40dB and 50dB over the background noise level…which, in an urban area is already between 40 and 70dBA. The PCM-D50 has pretty bad limiting – it actually is always recording at two different levels, and fades between the two, so it’s not even a real limiter<\/em>. So you need to set your levels very carefully. I did a test on Thursday to get just two fly-bys on Friday that were relatively clean.<\/p>\n

I liked how the sounds were rendered. The reverb off the tall buildings was nice, even though the background noise masked some of the jets’ approach. But in a city of 760,000 people, you take what you can get…<\/p>\n

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