The Wind

Recently, on another windy day, I recorded the wind whistling and swishing through the ventilator shaft.

Here’s what it sounded like:

Wind Through Ventilation on SoundCloud

Feel free to download it!

To add some variation to it, I loaded it up in Kontakt (inspired by this, obviously) and modulated the pitch, volume and a low pass filter with a MIDI controller. I tried to retain the actual sound and character of the recording, whilst still affecting it subtley. If Pro Tools had a pitch automation lane, sound design will be a whole lot more fun! Small changes in pitch and volume can add so much:

Wind Through Ventilation – Performed on SoundCloud

Recorded with a Neumann KM130 pair (omni) and a Sound Devices 744 at 96KHz. Why? It’s what I had with me at that point in time.

Tags | Field Recording, midi, Sound Design, ventilation, wind

Listen 003: Swans, Ducks, Gulls, Humans

Hollyrood Park is one of my favourite spots to spend time either walking or recording. It not only sounds very different on different days but is made up of a variety of sounds: wind, distant traffic (and sirens), birds, people jogging/walking with their dogs and swans, ducks, sea gulls and other birds.

This first one was at Dunsapie Loch, right behind Arthur’s Seat. It is an excerpt from a 20 minute recording featuring a good blend of mute swans, greylag geese, gulls, city noise and people. I sat at the edge of the pond with gulls flying above and around me and people jogging behind me. At 1:25 a swan gets out of the water and at 1:50 a dog goes after the ducks.

Recorded with a Neumann KM184 pair (ORTF) and Sound Devices 702.

Dunsapie Loch on SoundCloud

This second one was right below Salisbury Crags at about 9am on a Sunday – birds, little traffic, distant bagpipes (Scotland!) and people walking around the park.

Recorded with a Neumann KM120 and KM184 (MS) and Sound Devices 702.

Salisbury Crags on SoundCloud

Tags | birds, ducks, edinburgh, Field Recording, hollyrood park, loch, nature, park, pond, swans, traffic, wind