{"id":897,"date":"2010-03-17T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2010-03-17T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:40:10","slug":"more-guywire-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/more-guywire-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"More Guywire Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_898\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-898\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-898\" title=\"BRR_antennae\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/BRR_antennae.jpg\" alt=\"Antennae on Big Rock Ridge, Lucas Valley, Marin County, California. I'm lucky to have found this damn thing in fog like that!\" width=\"580\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/BRR_antennae.jpg 580w, https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/BRR_antennae-290x129.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antennae on Big Rock Ridge, Lucas Valley, Marin County, California. I&#39;m lucky to have found this damn thing in fog like that!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As mentioned in <a title=\"Read about my raingutter lasers!\" href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/31\/pew-pew-part-deux-gutter-lasers\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier<\/a> <a title=\"Read about my synth laser experiements!\" href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/09\/pew-pew-pew\/\" target=\"_blank\">posts<\/a>, <a title=\"Read more about the father of modern sound design on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Burtt\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Burtt<\/a> famously made the <a title=\"Check out starwars.com\" href=\"http:\/\/starwars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars<\/a> blaster sounds out of hitting tensioned wires. Who wouldn&#8217;t want to do the same? My interest was really in how much or little processing it might have taken to get such an iconic sound, so I had to give it a go.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that the answer is &#8220;precious little.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some more audio fun from my recording session in dense fog and high wind with guywires that were stabilizing an antenna array. (I highlighted some wind-in-the-wires drones from this session in a\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Read &quot;Eerie Wind in the Wires&quot;\" href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/19\/eerie-wind-in-the-wires\/\" target=\"_self\">previous post<\/a>.) This very short collection of samples hasn&#8217;t been processed beyond than normalization for loudness. It makes a feller want to go around hitting <em>everything<\/em> with a wrench!<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/noisejockey\/guywires&#8221; params=&#8221;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=dd0000&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; ]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">[OktavaMod MK-012 into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in earlier posts, Ben Burtt famously made the Star Wars blaster sounds out of hitting tensioned wires. Who wouldn&#8217;t want to do the same? My interest was really in how much or little processing it might have taken to get such an iconic sound, so I had to give it a go. Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,63,4],"tags":[119,26,9,10,25,22,321,18,120,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897"}],"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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}