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Em dic Pau, molt encantat.
This approx how far my knowledge of Catalá goes, but I wish these few words it to be an hommage to the project sponsor over there on the Llobregat river. Wonderful city.
As I wrote, my name is Paul, and I'm new (er...here).
I have NO recording equipment to play around with, so my "participation" in this site is to absorb information... I came accross the site by chance, basically examining the options as to how to make recordings of short wave radio.
One thing led to another and, being a virgo, my curiosity let me to the art of recording sounds, an idea not completely new to me: I remember, 20 years ago, fabulating recording the incredible noise of a miscoupled train (brake?) pneumatic tube, and somehow molding it into rhytmic er... music. Never did it (goes to show what dope can do to you). Now, I see there are people actually dong that kind of thing...
OK, back to lurking, but congratulations on this very interesting project.

Welcome! ... and get some recording equipment and start recording for Freesound! :wink:

Thanks LG, and for your suggestion. Let's see, mmmm, Sony MZ-RH1 looks nice, then those Belgian aevox binaural microphones.
Gosh, I won't be able to pay for this before, say, christmastime...
That means I won't be able to record that wonderful "silbato" (whistle) of the Madrid subway... in september, when I go there.

So, in the meanwhile I'm literally roaming the web... Here's a wonderful (agreed, looks very old-fashioned) website for those who understand french

http://claude.gendre.9online.fr/index.htm

...about the history of recording machinery and sound-recording....

Let's see, mmmm, Sony MZ-RH1 looks nice, then those Belgian aevox binaural microphones.
Gosh, I won't be able to pay for this before, say, christmastime...

Or... you do like me and spend a few euro's on a cheap digital dictaphone and use some software programmes to improve your recording. At Freesound we believe that a sound is better than no sound, even if the sound is not of the highest quality.

Not pushing you, though!