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Comment on Signs of Spring by soundslikenoise

soundslikenoise — Wed, 25 May 2011 07:16:58 +0000

Nice recording – it’s a beautiful experience to beat the sunrise and hear the world waking up. You’ve captured that moment nicely. You might be interested in a couple of recordings that I’ve posted on my blog from Australia, where we are moving into winter. http://soundslikenoise.wordpress.com/
I look forward to checking out more of your sounds.

Comment on Signs of Spring by dismalhiker

dismalhiker — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:36:03 +0000

Hi Tom… beautiful recording! Are you still using the setup described in your May 31, 2010 posting? It would be very interesting to see/hear details about your current setup (partially baffled boundary array). Thanks in advance.

Comment on Trying something new… by coastwalker

coastwalker — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:43:44 +0000

Awesome, now that totally rocks!

Comment on Trying something new… by Ray Bayer

Ray Bayer — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:44:18 +0000

A fantastic film Tom. A pro quality film that’s in need of an award.
Top shelf. Congratulations.

Comment on Signs of Spring by Tom

Tom — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:57:24 +0000

Lovely video, looks like a beautiful evening. Re. the compression artefacts I think you’ll need to raise the video bitrate quite a lot to eliminate these – have a look at http://vimeo.com/help/compression if you haven’t already seen it.

Watching your film inspired me to take my wife’s camera along on my latest recording trip and capture some video of my own – see my latest post!

Comment on Signs of Spring by coastwalker

coastwalker — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:27:02 +0000

Hi Tom, finally got round to posting http://vimeo.com/22118940 Not figured out how to get the video up without compression artifacts yet but the sound is pretty good. Lots of problems of course – grass makes an amazing amount of noise under your boots if you move and the ever present noises of farming are difficult to escape. I’ll flag anywhere I find that is quieter from this perspective.

Comment on Signs of Spring by Tom

Tom — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:23:56 +0000

Glad you enjoyed the recording. I’d love to get into combining video and sound – my current DSLR is stills only, which is quite frustrating, especially since my wife has a newer one which does superb HD video.

Let me know when you get some stuff up on Vimeo, I’d really like to see what you’ve produced!

Comment on Signs of Spring by coastwalker

coastwalker — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:03:02 +0000

Nice recording Tom, have been playing it a lot. You have some interesting recording kit. I have just got hold of an Olympus LS-11 and am intent on getting some HD video to go along with the built in Mic recordings – will see about some better mics once I see how they perform (WL183s perhaps to start with). I am over in Plymouth so could well get out to Haldon, have walked there in the past. I’m trying to hike around with a DSLR on a tripod with the audio recorder this year, will post it up somewheren (Vimeo?) If it works out. Love your site, keep up the good work, its getting noisy out there now!

Comment on Forest Fungi by Tom

Tom — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:22:16 +0000

Hi Mike,

I was eventually able to get an ID – the yellow coating is Bolete Mould (Hypomyces chrysospermus) which grows as a parasite on other fungi. Strange stuff!

Comment on Forest Fungi by Mike

Mike — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:33:14 +0000

To answer part of this: “I can’t decide whether the yellow colour comes from the fungus itself or a mould growing on it, but it was pretty eye-catching!” That yellow is a slime mold. It seems to have crawled onto a mushroom.