KVR Audio

frog_jr · Post by **frog_jr** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:11 pm

Hi, just tried an experiment. Did a 30 min field recording while riding the metro. 16 bit stereo wav. Put a ATR 35 mic on each side of my hand truck, facing away from each other for separation, and recorded to 16-bit wav. I'd appreciate suggestions or critique. I waited on the platform for about 10m, listened to a couple of trains go by at different distances from me, and then I rode the train for ~ 20 m and listened to people around me talk trash. A lot of conductor announcements and automated messages from the train. I split the recording into 7 min segments, and each segment starts w 9 seconds of the previous one, if you want to paste them together again.

If you enjoy this one I can do others. Criticism is welcome too. I tried compressing the audio and tweaking the eq, but decided I should let you do that at your end if you play with it. So the recording is in its original form, although I am ATM enjoying this recording more running it through a Symetrix 525 compressor.

I'm a little concerned that the hardware I used isn't good enough, so if you have any criticism I would like to hear it.

http://www.homeofthegnome.net/train/
(Caution, files are all 70 mb+)

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I'll soon remove them, as I have contributed them to the freesound project, and they will remain freely available from their server indefinitely. They take a couple of days to populate on Bram's database I guess, so I am leaving them for about 2 more days.

So go to http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php and then given time you should be able to find mine using the geotagged recordings map, in the vicinity of Washington DC (central eastern coast of the U.S. Smile )
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dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:51 pm

I'm totally interested, I'll grab it when I get home.
dw

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:17 pm

coolio, i love stuff like this

Chuck E. Jesus · Post by **Chuck E. Jesus** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:35 pm

i must say: this is much better listening than most music....

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:16 am

Look cool, will download when i get chance.

The files do look pretty big, have you thought about a lossless compression format like FLAC or something? Would save your bandwidth too.

Thanks.
.g

frog_jr · Post by **frog_jr** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:31 am

OK, i'll try flac. Just using dbpoweramp. Never gave it much thought. I guess there's no quality loss in conversion?

Muzik 4 Machines · Post by **Muzik 4 Machines** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:38 am

no please, keepp the waves too, i won't use anything but waves if it's to be heard on anything else than a ipod

Rick Deckard · Post by **Rick Deckard** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:38 am

flac is lossless, makes sense to use that.

jens · Post by **jens** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:44 am

Rick Deckard wrote:flac is lossless, makes sense to use that.

yes, there's no real disadvantage to using Flac or MonkeyAudio (apart from the additonal work of encoding/decoding) and it approximately reduces the file-size to 50%

Muzik 4 Machines wrote:no please, keepp the waves too, i won't use anything but waves if it's to be heard on anything else than a ipod

lossless=lossless

dreaddd · Post by **dreaddd** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:59 am

thx for the free bits

frog_jr · Post by **frog_jr** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:34 am

OK, I'm putting FLAC's up there now as well. I think I just have a gig rented on the server. I'll probably take the .wav's down the next time I put up something else large, so pls get them sooner than later. I hope to do more of this in time.

I know the conductor is not a fair example of DC metro. He enunciates.

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:13 pm

I'm downloading #1 flac right now.

I'll load it up in Tracktion and snip out some bits that I like.

Subways are always interesting field recordings. You should consider donating these to the freesound project.

Rick Deckard · Post by **Rick Deckard** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:19 pm

what is "DC metro" ???

jens · Post by **jens** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:23 pm

Rick Deckard · Post by **Rick Deckard** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:24 pm

yes i am seeing that but what is "DC"???

Free Field Recording - Riding on the Metro