Here is my recording of the 4th of July for 2018. Microphones are inexpensive electret capsules encased in facial tissue. I used phantom power to electret plug-in power adapters from Naiant Studio to connect the electret condenser microphones to balanced XLR inputs.
This is a wide stereo recording. One microphone was placed outside a window facing west in my living room and the other outside a sliding door on the east side of the living room. The metal window frame of the living room window has a wire running from it to my Mackie Blackjack audio interface to reduce hum pick-up. This time there’s no additional audio processing other than hard limiting to -.1db. The input microphone gain was set at about 30db (about halfway on the Blackjack) which is considerably lower than past recordings.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackAnd lo! He hath returned! Looking forward to adding this to the archive. I’ve been thinking for a while about messing around with these, and your New Year’s recordings, maybe trying to meld them all together and see what might come out the other end. If I finally manage to get it done, I’ll report back with results.
Thank you, Leona. As you may know Facebook and Twitter have all but “consumed” me, but I’ll try to do more over here. Now I just discovered Facebook will stream audio in stereo. Keep your fingers crossed!
Yes, I knew you were spending more time there. As much as I hate to miss anything, I’m afraid I just cannot make that particular leap to the “other side”. But if there are any highlights you can still post here, know that you have at least one fan who will greatly appreciate it! 🙂