© John Allan
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Lake Wylie, Belmont / Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
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the microphone is part of an mp3 / radio thing and it's voice recording capabilities were intended for personal note taking. so, the original sound i captured was rather bad...
i loaded the wav file into sonic foundry acid and duplicated it several times, |
you can see the different volumes above (click the image to make it larger if needed) and i also setup a different equalizer for each track:
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that gave it a pretty neat stereo effect and it brought out a lot of details that were muffled before.
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i had to remove a few clicks and pops that i can only guess
came from water splashing onto the microphone. and there was one loud boat
that had a very low frequency engine that i volume mapped. <-- blue is volume, red is bass track. |
there are a lot of other sounds at this place, like the water hitting the boat, the creaking of the dock, the various birds, etc. and i plan on capturing more in the future. (maybe with more microphones, in different locations, at the same time, mixed together..)
one last note: this track starts off with a series of crashing waves and i tweaked that volume to be the loudest overall, so you should be able to set your volume at the beginning and though it will go through very soft and very loud points along the way, if you don't try to chase the volume, you should be okay. it sounds great in headphones.
