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Spe3D · Post by **Spe3D** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:08 am

Well its raining here – so I thought as people were interested in rain, bells and the quality of mini disk recordings – I made a quick sample of the ambiance around here this very morning.

This was done on my mini disk set-up (type-R) going into a portable mixer, from which I ran a couple of standard mics, one set to ground level – the other sky, slight panning, high gain.

Here you can download an MP3 that is 3MB in size

http://spe3d.com/audio/Spe3d_RainAndAmbi.mp3

If you would like this exact render but as a 22MB 16 Bit 44.1 stereo wave file in a 18MB zip follow this link

http://audioshots.com/auditorium/viewtopic.php?t=1218

EDIT:

A few done this morning – not raining, three short mp3’s if anyone wants the waves of these – let me know and I will zip them and put them up at the auditorium

Different mic placement for these two at ground level pointing 45 degrees towards the sky – 5 meters apart – not a heavy pan in the mixer – recorded onto mini disk (Type-R) (unfortunately we get the benefit of distant traffic on the main road – but that’s the ambiance for today) strangely I captured a distant gun shot this morning too may post that later, must be all the stress of the elections

http://spe3d.com/audio/AmbiNoRainDistantClock.mp3 (under 1MB)

http://spe3d.com/audio/AmbiNoRainPart2Crow.mp3 (under 1MB)

http://spe3d.com/audio/AmbiNoRainPart2Duck.mp3 (under 1MB)

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

NPerez · Post by **NPerez** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:07 am

beautiful

thanks!

Genetic_Junk · Post by **Genetic_Junk** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:05 pm

Thanks Spe3d. I'm still waiting for my Edirol r-1, but when it arrives I'll reciprocate.

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:49 pm

Spe3D wrote:Well its raining here – so I thought as people were interested in rain, bells and the quality of mini disk recordings – I made a quick sample of the ambiance around here this very morning.

This was done on my mini disk set-up (type-R) going into a portable mixer, from which I ran a couple of standard mics, one set to ground level – the other sky, slight panning, high gain.

Here you can download an MP3 that is 3MB in size

http://spe3d.com/audio/Spe3d_RainAndAmbi.mp3

If you would like this exact render but as a 22MB 16 Bit 44.1 stereo wave file in a 18MB zip follow this link

http://audioshots.com/auditorium/viewtopic.php?t=1218

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

I don't know how much you're experience, but you would make a great use of some plugins....

i would recommand a good denoiser, a good stereo spreader and an enhancer as good as like psp mixtrebble, this to increase some psychoacoustic aspects without altering too much the original take...

Spe3D · Post by **Spe3D** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:59 pm

Thank you Nperez and Genetic, more to follow along these lines, coastal, wind, heaver rain etc.

Krakatu – this ‘ambient’ sample is ‘exactly’ how I intend it to be – if others what to chop it up – boost it, spread it etc. they can.

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

rbet · Post by **rbet** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:05 pm

whoa speed... that is amazing! Do you live on a farm or in a treehouse somewhere?

Seriously, I loved the bells.

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:13 pm

Ah! A fellow minidisc-rain-sampler

My mic setup was super cheesy but got interesting results. If you're interested: two basic condenser(?) mics back to back facing outwards from each other at about the distance of the width of the average human head. Made for a neat stereo field, when listening with headphones.

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:14 pm

Nice work, love the Blackbird

Spe3D · Post by **Spe3D** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:56 pm

rbet, thank you – as it happens I live in a semi rural place, a small village near the south coast of the UK, it is pretty much surrounded in woodland, plus at night sometimes its possible to hear owls etc. these are something else I will try to capture – no good if its windy for that as the leaves in the trees rustle too much. The owl will get caught in digital one day.

Jace-BeOs, yes this recording was not intended as a wide stereo field, the mic placement was one directly above the other with very slight panning, it was just to capture a small amount of ambiance. My portable mixer can take upto eight mics – five of these can be phantom powered – so it stereo field and depth was needed then more mics can be used – one ground, one sky, and the other two mid left and mid right.

Thanks Krim, I will do the birds again when its not raining – there is quite a varied collection here, and just one bird can sing many alternative notes.

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

Spe3D · Post by **Spe3D** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:01 am

Bump for today

check the edit in the first post,

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

GruvSyco · Post by **GruvSyco** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:13 pm

Hey Spe3d... just wanted to say thanks for giving us access to all these samples.

I just recovered my vsampler license yesterday and look forward to trying out many of the sounds you have made available

Thanks!!

Bo Clausen · Post by **Bo Clausen** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:42 pm

Hey Spe3d

Thank you so much for sharing your sampling

I would really like the Wav. files of the 3 new Ambi samples.

Best regards
Bo

Spe3D · Post by **Spe3D** » Fri May 06, 2005 1:34 am

Thanks GruvSyco,

appreciate the feedback

Thank you Bo,

I will up the files a bit later today

, I am not sure if I will continue with the ambient sampleing after this – but will continue with the soundfonts and waves of diverse sounds, like the glass, drill motors etc. I think the ambient stuff must have too much noise and/or not needed. Nice to listen to sound from different parts of the world though, in different areas of the country.

Best regards,

Peter

Rain and Ambiance – done with a mini disk - EDIT: updated