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Awesome article RH! Inspiring for all SD's.

Indeed, copy paste sonic's comment

Second this ... inspiring reading!

thanx, for newbies like me the article is very interesting and informative

Perhaps what I liked most was: "slightly lesser quality is more important to me than not having the sound at all". Intuitively I reached the same conclusion recently, but its is a great consolation to hear it from an experienced person. Sound recording is IMHO much like taking digital pictures: equipment helps, but being THERE is all-important.

About classifying sounds... oh, I will decide as soon as I get my photograph collection organized !!

I was not logged in when I sent the post above, sorry

Thanks from me too Richard. I'm also pretty new to this, and the high quality of your recordings is awe-inspiring!

I think it's great that professional level people like yourselves spend time and effort on this.

I figured it was a real pro uploading those pro-sounding recordings.

I'm working on some "Mind Movies" (audio art, plays, skits) of which some of your ambient sounds will be a big part. I'm striving to make these as good as I can. Hopefully they will be something you will be proud to have your name attached to.

Whenever I get one ready to release to the world I'll be looking for a URL to go along with the credit for the background sounds. So get your commercial CDs done and a website too! (btw have you looked into Cafepress.com?).

I'm sure your CDs would do well -I'd be first in line to buy them. Of course keep uploading recordings here too! It will pay off in the long run as your name spreads around the world in projects such as mine.

Thanks for the great advice on field recording. Gotta buy some portable gear so I can put that advice to use. Would love to see another article from you with tips on recording / editing / mixing for video and film.

Nice article, i've listen some of your sounds and they are really good, congrats.

I am sound mixer and sound designer too, i live in Montevideo Uruguay.
I have recorded in Nagra, Uher, Revox, and then in TCDD8. Now i have a Fostex PD4, and a MS Schoeps pair, a neumann 82i ( just for dialgue) and other toys.

May be one of these days i learn to upload and you listen some uruguayan stuff.

Cheers,

Fabian.

I even printed it out . Great article. I wish Richard would record tribal stuff .

-kai

Just found the Tabla files . That will do for tribal in a track - excellent sound quality!!!!! Drums are not easy to record and produce well - and these are superb!

Kai

Richard nice work. Great article

I also work in films and documentaries and I agree that recording your own ambiences and sounds is so much more satisfying and authentic than using libraries. Libraries never have what you want anyway.

The only problem I have with it all is that when I get documentaries in post production I'm at the mercy of the recordist. There is never enough money to send me (!) overseas to pick up necessary recordings that were not included due to time etc. I have recently completed a documentary from Thailand which was a nightmare as it needed authentic sounds that were not available even on commercial libraries.

It took all my resources to beg and buy works of other professionals that I know. I'm happy with the finished work, but it would have been easier if they'd just sent me there!

Aussie docos? Not a problem!

Thankyou for NOT being extremely secretive with regards to your field recording techniques. If we look back into the history of Audio engineering and production, sound engineers would tend to keep alot of their own techniques to themselves. I suppose this was because of the competitive nature of the recording industry. I am totally in favour of sharing ideas and techniques with the audio recording community, It helps us all progress with the artform, and as reports like this and projects like freesound show: I am certainly not alone with this belief in sharing ideas and concepts.

Thanks for your thoughts, tips, and tricks. I use two main recorders. One is a M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 and the other is a laptop computer. It sure makes a lot more sense to take the smallest equipment you can into the field.

Great article!

Jim

Cool article.

Yours is the first I've read here, and was EXACTLY what I hoped to find. Thanks.