Half-speed! Wind chimes quartet on Cornish clifftop — Pluto, Polaris, Mercury, Mars

Half-speed version of part of https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/697884/. High-pitched sweetness of sound against a sea background in a fascinating and atmospheric setting, now heard an octave lower.

Chimes used are:

1. Woodstock Chimes of Pluto (moderately high-pitched, pentatonic)

2. Woodstock Chimes of Polaris (high-pitched, pentatonic)

3. Woodstock Chimes of Mercury (very high-pitched, pentatonic)

4. Woodstock Chimes of Mars (very high-pitched and penetrating; not sure what scale!)

I recorded this on 17 July 2013, on a clifftop crag by the Levant tin mine ruins, near Pendeen, Penwith, Cornwall, UK.

For more details about the different chimes used, please go to https://www.philipgoddard.com/shop/store-windchimes.htm.

This recording taking place. Chimes are (left to right) Pluto, Mars, Polaris, Mercury.

Techie stuff

The recorder was Sony PCM-M10, with Røde DeadKitten furry windshield (original, more effective, version). It was set up on a Hama Mini tripod, which is very 'mini', and the chimes on Zipshot tripods.

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield — and then more recently stereo widening / sharpening-up using the VST plugin A1 Stereo Control (160% widening). I used the 'Change speed' effect in Audacity to produce this half-speed version.

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