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Passing cars.wav

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Kyster

February 22nd, 2010

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Sound effects > Vehicles
Nørre Nebel, RegionSouthern Denmark, Denmark

This was recorded in Nr. Nebel, a very small danish city in western jutland. It's simply a recording of mainly cars passing, and some pedestrians in the background.

It's a bit of an experiment also. I was tired of the windshields on my two small microphones on my PR1 portable digital recorder. Too much wind have destroyed way too many recordings, so i decided to do something about it. I found an old foam madras, and cut out two new and bigger windscreens. It helped!

Also i tried to have the microphones point in opposite directions with a full 180 degree difference. I got the result i wanted, a very clear difference in consending an descending (i hope i'm making sense) audio, between the two channels. Great when recording things passing by.

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cars-passing
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Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

3:16.881

File size

66.2 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

32 bit

Channels

Stereo

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Kyster

16 years ago

Hey, thank you Inchadney. "Hitchcockish" is a bit over my league i think, but you're right, it's kinda creepy in it's own way.

As for the windshields, they're not quite finished yet, but i'm getting there :-)

inchadney

16 years ago

Thats what I call a very "Hitchcockish" recording! Brilliant and congratulation to the DIY windshields! There sure is some wind in Denmark! Tak!

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