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airplane.aif

Overall rating (13 ratings)
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Bruce Burbank

December 5th, 2011

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Sound effects > Vehicles

Plane- it’s difficult to get good recordings of planes taking off these days. There’s always major streets or highways close by which results in a bunch of unwanted traffic noise. It’s difficult to find a good vantage point to set up because there’s hardly any public parking with unobstructed sight lines (or in my case hearing lines) to the planes. Plus, with all the extra security measures in place these days, how suspicious would I look setting up a laptop and
some cables and some other electronic equipment  in the general area of the runway?
But I managed to get this recording. It’s not spectacular, but it’s OK. There’s some worker truck at the end of it which gets in the way, but doesn’t ruin it.

Nady stereo condenser microphone
Focusrite Saffire Pro24 interface
Logic 8 on a MacBook Pro
San Diego airport

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airplane
field-recording
plane

Type

AIFF (.aiff)

Duration

0:30.374

File size

5.1 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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Kevin_Gamble...

8 years, 10 months ago

Still a high pitched frequency there, but good recording.

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michin89

12 years, 8 months ago

gracias!

klankbeeld

14 years, 2 months ago

Recording is Okey.

Tip for you.
When you are in LA visit Vista Del Mar Park‎, Los Angeles. I have been there (forgot the recorder!!). It is just below the runway and 700 feet from the ocean and relatively quiet. So if you are there take your recorder with you ...
A great spot to record large planes take-off..

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