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A return train journey from Cardiff saw me travelling through the Severn Tunnel. Opened in 1886, this train tunnel is 4.3 miles long, below the Severn Estuary. It took us about 3mins 42 seconds to get through. I recorded directly onto my phone (mono) onto the Zoom Handy Recorder App, placing the phone on the small shelf table by the window. The top of the window was open. In the background you can hear other passengers coughing and the sound of a particularly annoying guy listening to something on his phone very loud without headphones. The quality of sound in the tunnel changes at 1:24 suggesting a larger space before becoming closer again at about 1:50. The recording opens just as we enter the tunnel and finishes a few seconds after we leave.

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A quick recording of a malfunctioning fridge in Sainsbury's, Trowbridge. Some interesting stereo effects here. Using the Zoom iQ6 on iPhone via the Zoom Handyrecorder app

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A recording of the parade at Chippenham Folk Festival May 28th 2022. The festival had taken a two year break due to COVID and this year the parade was longer than it had been for a while, with plenty of morris and folk dance teams from all over dancing down the main town centre street of Chippenham, starting at the Buttercross and ending up in Monkton Park. I stood at the side in the crowd with my son as the teams went past, you can hear someone clapping enthusiastically to my left and the music clashing as the dancers move on. Recorded in stereo on the Zoom iQ6 attached to an iphone8 on the zoom handy recorder app - no headphones so had to try and adjust the levels via the display, hence the booming tabor drum at the start. There wasn't too much wind so I used the sponge windshield rather than the dead cat, (which seems to attract attention). As Tumblr only accepts audio files of 10MB or less this is compressed down into mp3 from the original 47.2MB WAV file

#field recording #sound recording #stereo recording #folk dance #chippenham folk festival 2022 #zoom handyrecorder app #zoom iq6 #morris dancing #wiltshire

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I was saddened to hear that my stepmother's friend and former lodger, Christine, had died a couple of weeks ago. She was a harp player, performing at events and weddings. I remember as a teenager playing on the harp at my stepmother's house while Christine lodged there. In August 2021, my Stepmother and I went to hear her play in the open air at The Richard Jefferies Museum in Swindon. I'd only just got hold of the iQ6 microphone set for the iPhone, so I took a couple of very short recordings of Christine playing some well-known music pieces from her wedding repertoire. The first was in mono and the second stereo. I've segued them together here. As I hadn't yet worked out how to use the iQ6, the recordings were a bit muffled and quiet, so I've boosted them a little and added reverb to give the harp more presence. In both you can hear the traffic in the background and a police siren going past. The photo accompanying this post is actually a grab from a low-def video from the day, published to the Richard Jefferies Museum facebook page, as I didn't take a picture of the harp playing myself.

#field recording #zoom iq6 #zoom handyrecorder app #Swindon #Harp

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A recording made in Holt, Wiltshire using the Zoom iQ6 plugged directly into the phone and using a dead cat wind protector. It was a very windy day on Friday 3rd Feb and opposite where I work there are some tennis courts. To keep the gulls off, there's a kite in the shape of a hawk attached to a pole. I've seen similar set-ups on the lines of car sales forecourts on the Canal Road Industrial estate and they've been on my list to record for a while. I took the opportunity to nip out at lunch time and try and get a recording of the one in Holt. Needless to say, the strong wind was a problem and the small dead cat didn't quite cut it without the Rycote cage that my more advanced set-up has. It took a few attempts to get a recording which didn't have the mic blown out by the breezes, but even so there was a lot of buffeting sound, which in combination with the quite subtle sounds of the plastic kite vibrating, made for a quite challenging recording. In the mix I've pushed up the low cut and dropped some of the lower frequencies, then upped the gain. The result is a slightly 'zoomed in' effect on the hawk kite which I quite like. There's still enough stereo ambiance to give the recording depth and although the wind is still present, there's more of a hiss from the gusts as well. I don't think it sounds tinny though. Mixing is an area of sound production and recording I would like to learn more about.

#sound recording #field recording #stereo recording #kite #wiltshire #zoom handyrecorder app #zoom iq6 #wind #Holt #mixing

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At my biz partner's house and due to the punishing cold the UK was going through, she lit the log fire. The fire started making strange honking noises, a bit like a slowed down talking porcupine . I used the iQ6 mounted directly on the phone to get the stereo. In the background you can hear a dog jump down from the sofa, resonating through the floorboards, then scrabble after a cat on the wooden floor of the hallway. In the background is the sound of the road outside coming down the chimney.

#field recording #sound recording #fire sounds #stereo recording #domestic sounds #zoom iq6 #zoom handyrecorder app

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A couple of weeks ago I went back to the pedestrian rail crossing on the outskirts of Trowbridge, where the industrial estate meets the fields. I'd tried to record here before but it was too windy, so I came back with wind protection and crossed to the other side of the line, so I could put the iQ6 on the phone down below the ridge of the embankment out of the wind. In its raw form this is a much longer recording but I had to chop a lot down to get to the 10MB Tumblr allows. The stereo favours the left ear as that's the direction of the busy road where the West Ashton bypass meets the Hawkridge roundabout and the Westbury road. The little Sprinter train that shoots past was a two carriage passenger train coming from Westbury to Trowbridge. We can hear the horn as it comes along the straight before passing in less than 3 seconds. I'm using the iQ6 plugged directly in the phone here.

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On my way back from visiting my eldest son in Oxford I was forced to wait for a delayed train at Westbury station in an absolute deluge. I used the bare phone audio via the Zoom Handy Recorder app to get a mono recording - attempting to shield the phone from the fierce winds that ALWAYS seem to be blowing at that station.

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While in Bath visiting universities I caught a quick mono recording directly onto my phone from under a road bridge. Huge pipes carried some sort of fluid over the river and these can be heard in the recording, as well as the coo-ing of the pigeons under the bridge, the cars passing on the bridge itself overhead and people passing me as I record.

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12th October 2022 - I used the Zoom iQ6 attached directly to my phone, with some deadcat wind protection, and stood at the gates of the scrapyard in the middle of Trowbridge. I was right by the road so you can hear the (often speeding) traffic passing in stereo as well as the mighty lifting and crushing machines from inside the scrapyard itself. Near the end, a huge, clanking lorry pulls out of the yard and thrashes up the hill. I'd like to go back with some better equipment and ask if I can get some good up (safely) close recordings.

#sound recording #field recording #zoom handyrecorder app #zoom iq6 #stereo recording #wiltshire #scrap yard #metal noises #industrial noises #cars #diesel #urban sounds

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I was alone in our office in Holt, Wiltshire, with the window open. It was a bright but windy autumn day. As I was working I put on an ambient mix and noticed that the howling of the wind through the old building added to the track, so I got out the Zoom iQ6 and connected it up to my phone with the extension, using a mug as an impromptu mic stand. It's a stereo recording and it picked up the Jon Hopkins track playing on my laptop, as well as some email arrival chimes; but also the sound of the wind in the trees and the wind in the rafters howling occasionally. We can also hear cars driving up the gravel car park, the metal window frame clanking as the wind snatches at the open window, then right at the end someone uses an angle grinder outside. I ought to make a recording of just the office sounds without any music. This is only a short recording as I quickly realised I wasn't getting any work done while the mic was open.

#sound recording #field recording #zoom handyrecorder app #zoom iq6 #stereo recording #wiltshire #wind #trees #ambient

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I was taking a walk at around 4pm when I passed a tree full of starlings, by the back of the cricket pitch. I didn't have any equipment with me other than my phone, so I opened the Handyrecorder app and tried to shield the in-built microphones from the wind - not very successfully as you can hear. I was right by the busy road, so cars are whooshing past. There are also some crickets in there too (The insects, not the game). I wish it had been a stereo recording, but there we are.

#mono recording #field recording #sound recording #zoom handyrecorder app #wiltshire #city birds #starlings

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A quick recording without any stereo microphone directly onto the Zoom Handyrecorder app on the iPhone. I gave the dog - (a Romanian rescue dog) a chew and put the phone about half a foot away from the chomping jaws.

#sound recording #zoom handyrecorder app #field recording #wiltshire #dog #chewing #noisy eating

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On arrival at the car park of the flats where I live, I could hear this strange watery sound where an overflow pipe or something was malfunctioning. I rushed in and grabbed the Zoom iQ6 with the extension cable and a clown nose and started recording. There's a little bit of cable noise as I was very hasty in case the water stopped. We can also hear children and the sound of perhaps cutlery. Some seagulls pass by and near the end a police siren comes near.

#sound recording #field recording #stereo recording #zoom handyrecorder app #zoom iq6 #trowbridge #water

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July 7th 2022 - sitting outside on the lawn in a front garden. On the other side of the hedge is a village road. In the background we can hear Jackdaws and Collared Doves, cars occasionally pass, one clipping a loose manhole. A jet passes overhead, and a fly buzzes close by. The main thing is, we can hear Benny the cat, who has a very distinctive purr. At first he's facing the other way to the mic which is on the grass, but he rolls over on the mossy lawn and becomes interested in the deadcat wind protection. The purr becomes loud and we can hear him knocking the cables in his efforts to get closer. There was a light breeze, so the wind shield did a pretty good job here. As ever I've compressed this down to 6MB or so from the original 41MB in order to post on Tumblr

#sound recording #zoom handyrecorder app #zoom iq6 #stereo recording #wiltshire #field recording #cat #purring #jackdaws #collared doves #cats of instagram #village #hilmarton

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25th June 2022. Wales. The sheep had been recently moved to a new field and they were making a lot of noise. I stood on a concrete ford with a culvert running under my feet - you can hear the stream running right to left. The sheep are very vocal. A jet crosses over from left to right at high altitude.

#sheep #field recording #sound recording #zoom handyrecorder app #zoom iq6 #stereo recording #wales