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The Dish.mp3

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digifishmusic

May 17th, 2008

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Sound effects > Natural elements and explosions
Cambridge, Tasmania, Australia
Electromechanics

Moving the 26 meter radio-telescope on Mt Pleasant near Hobart Tasmania, not a great recording unfortunately, it was bleak and windy on the day, and the wind-speed overwhelms the furry-blimp on occasions. I was staying near-by and raced up the hill one afternoon on a whim to record it moving but was kept a fair distance back by the security fence. At 0:00-0:50 is the telescope spooling up and moving. 0:50-1:51 the telescope is stationary and idling (flywheels), 1:52-2:20 the flywheels spool down, 2:20 the locks engage and the system is off...exciting to watch. I will have to go back and do it better another time. Recording chain: Rode NT4 (stereo mic in blimp) - Sound Devices MixPre (mic preamp) - Edirol R09 (digital recorder).

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dish
electromechanics
field-recording
gears
machines
motors
mt-pleasant-observatory
radio-astronomy
radio-telescope
satellite-dish
stereo
teloscope
utas-physics

Type

Mp3 (.mp3)

Duration

2:28.050

File size

5.6 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bitrate

320 kbps

Channels

Stereo

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seachangeau

8 years, 4 months ago

oh so awsome!! how could i not put this into episode16 doctoraudioadventures.com ? that song though didn't work out - our recording of credits was too awful and had to be drowned in cinematic music!

digifishmusic

17 years, 6 months ago

Telescope website...

http://www-ra.phys.utas.edu.au/physics_mt_pleasant.html

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