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MrM · Post by **MrM** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:25 am

audicity can do 24 to 16 bit.

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:31 am

for the ultimate public recordings i bought these:
sound professionals in-ear binaurals
http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-b ... m/SP-TFB-2

and for the minidisc i have one of these puppies:
http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-b ... Y-MZ-RH910
records in pcm wave baby!

i have some of the most bizarre samples of people in public and i've barely used these toys so far

MrM · Post by **MrM** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:06 am

Check out my website, there are some field recordings on it:
http://members.home.nl/mistermouse/fieldrec.htm

No coughs though, yet

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:10 am

very nice website. i love how you took pictures of the subjects you record. everything is well documented.
what do you think of the SP-TB2 binaurals? i got the high sensitivity, i think i could've done with low-sensitivity.

MrM · Post by **MrM** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:17 am

I got the previous model, I like them for their good output. But I don't find them nice to wear.
My OKM's however are nice to wear but have much lower output.
Life is always a compromise, isn't it?

But the beauty of the SP's is that they are so cheap, I can safely take the risk of taping them under the hood of my car, or put them on the road of a circuit...
I even had one installed in the cat liter box (the cat's own sh!t house)... Needless to say I will not be using that pair in my ears anymore

sghoughton · Post by **sghoughton** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:24 am

Two things got me thinking about this lately:

i got those recordings of beethovens 6-9 off the bbc website and i've been playing around with symph. choirs for the past few weeks. after hearing the bbc recordings, i've become terribly aware of the fact that a lot of demos i've heard lately on the northernsound site or soundsonline forums could be made far more real with the odd intermittent bit of background sounds. Nothing too fancy, but just enough to trick your mind into thinking that this was a real recording session with real people. With the S.choirs, I've been very conscious of the fact that these guys arent breathing - they're gonna die soon if i dont get them breathing

That only occured becuase of one part i was playing with that had a natural silence in it for a half second or so - great time for a breath.

Squids, if theres any way you could also pull something like that together, it would be just excellent.

thanks

steve

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:25 pm

You never know...

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:28 pm

By the way, anyone has really cool field recordings of unique ambience or sound effects I might be interested in buying them off you. I am putting together a massive collection of these for esoundz. But, who knows if there is something in your part of the world (even a weird air conditioner or industrial park or cool tunnel or airport) that might be different than what we've been capturing.

MrM · Post by **MrM** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:49 pm

What exactly would you like to have?
Do you want to buy exclusive rights?

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:53 pm

MrM wrote:What exactly would you like to have?
Do you want to buy exclusive rights?

Those details are always worked out privately. Send me an email: dave@sonicreality.com

MrM · Post by **MrM** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:35 pm

Will do so tomorrow!

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:57 pm

MrM wrote:Will do so tomorrow!

Cool. This will be perfect for the upcoming "Interactive Cat Litter Box FX Capsule".

Just kidding. I like to hear what creative samplists are able to capture out there in the real world.

lawapa · Post by **lawapa** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:50 am

pheeleep wrote:I got the Bela D Media samples, now does anyone know how I can convert them from 24 bit to 16 bit? A free program perhaps.. thanks Don't know which one to get. I have Db PowerAmp but it says I am missing a codec to be able to do that. Problem is, I don't know which one..

SoundForge can do that and more. with dithering

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 1:07 am

lawapa wrote:
pheeleep wrote:I got the Bela D Media samples, now does anyone know how I can convert them from 24 bit to 16 bit? A free program perhaps.. thanks Don't know which one to get. I have Db PowerAmp but it says I am missing a codec to be able to do that. Problem is, I don't know which one..
SoundForge can do that and more. with dithering

Pentagon,z3ta+,Tassman,Vsampler 3,FM7,Vocator,Sonar 3 Producer,SoundForge,Awave,Vegas 5
SFZ+,P5. And two kick ass DawBox machines plus Sonik Synth 2, SampleTank 2XL and Miroslav Philharmonik.

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Source for good background sounds (breaths, coughs, etc)