{"id":652,"date":"2009-09-15T07:25:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2009-09-16T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T14:29:04","slug":"massive-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/15\/massive-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, no photo. No description. Just a sound.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fnoisejockey%2Fmystery-sound-intro&amp;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=dd0000\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" src=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fnoisejockey%2Fmystery-sound-intro&amp;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=dd0000\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This sound is a field recording of a bee captured in a plastic food bin. It was recorded by placing a <a title=\"Check out my earlier article on contact mics!\" href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/creeping-crawlies-and-contact-mics\/\" target=\"_blank\">contact microphone<\/a> on the side of the bin, which was tracked at 24 bit\/192kHz onto my <a title=\"Check out the SD702 at B&amp;H!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/429566-REG\/Sound_Devices_702_702_High_Resolution_2_Channel.html\/BI\/5129\/KBID\/5631 \" target=\"_blank\">Sound Devices 702 recorder<\/a>. The bee was hitting the sides of the bin with his body and wings, producing the warbling and percussive hits. I lowered the pitch of the sound by a full three octaves while keeping the duration the same, which still kept a fair amount of dynamics given the high sample and bit rate of the recording. This is dying to be used in conjunction with an actively-automated Doppler plug-in, but a gent has only so many spare cycles in a day.<\/p>\n<p>No bees were harmed in this recording. The little feller had air holes and he was released after 6 minutes, after which he promptly went back to pollinating my backyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, no photo. No description. Just a sound. This sound is a field recording of a bee captured in a plastic food bin. It was recorded by placing a contact microphone on the side of the bin, which was tracked at 24 bit\/192kHz onto my Sound Devices 702 recorder. The bee was hitting the sides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[13,95,103,104,96,10,105,97,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}