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New Year’s London, UK, 2020 recorded from an open microphone in Kilburn, London. I used the built-in audio recorder in VLC media player to capture the streaming mp3 file from the URL on Locus Sonus Soundmap.The recording starts at approximately 11:54 PM, December 31st, 2019 and runs to about 12:06 AM, January 1st, 2020, London Time.
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New Year’s New York, 2020 recorded from an open microphone in Queens, New York. The same technique was done for this recording as for London. I recorded from approximately 11:54 PM, December 31st, 2019 to about 12:06 AM, January 1st, 2020, Eastern Standard Time.
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New Year’s Chicago, 2020 recorded from an open microphone somewhere in Chicago. The same technique was done for this recording as for London and New York. I recorded from approximately 11:54 PM, December 31st, 2019 to about 12:06 AM, January 1st, 2020, Central Standard Time.
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Here is my recording of New Year’s 2020 featuring the sounds of the celebration at midnight at my home in Seattle. The recording starts at about 11:54 PM, December 31st, 2019 and ends at about 12:16 AM, January 1st, 2020. Along with an inexpensive Dell laptop computer, I used VSTHost with LoudMax and ReaFir for VST plug-ins. One microphone was placed outside a living room window at the front of my house, facing west, and the other just outside on my back deck, facing east. This year there were gusty winds up to forty miles per hour. The microphone at the front of the house was subjected to the strong wind and I covered the microphone with a fuzzy “dead cat” wind screen. That helped somewhat, but there was still some wind noise causing distortion and clipping. Pictured below are the microphones, adapter cables and wind screen for the microphone at the front of my house.
In addition, a wire was connected from the metal window frame (where one microphone was placed just outside) to the outside metal cabinet my Focusrite audio interface to reduce hum pick up.
