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Christmas night SF free download!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0U8JEMT0 On Christmas night from about 4-7 pm I recorded a bunch of stuff and here it is for download. I recorded mostly in San Francisco with a Sennh …
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REQUEST: European BGz variety - birds, animals

Greetings! I'm in a situation where a show calls for some "historically-accurate" (within reason, 'geographically-accurate' may be the more correct term) ambiences in terms of ani …
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Recording City Ambiance

Hi everyone. Just wondering if anyone had any tips on recording city and town ambiances? I have access to a few different kinds of microphone so is there any specific type I shou …
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Audio Story Mixing

Hi, I recently put together an audio story. I was looking for a bit of feedback about how it has been mixed. It consists of a narration, a night-time room ambience of crickets, var …
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Selling sound fx recorded in public places.

Hi all I was hoping some of you could tell me the rules or laws when selling ambience recordings from trainstations, beaches, playing grounds, busy city streets, or anywhere else …
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Jecklin Stereo with Lavs?

Has anyone ever set up a semi-Jecklin-Disc-style stereo rig with two omni lavalieres with sound-absorbing material in between? I suspect that a lot of us are perfectly aware of b …
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Recording Ambience with a shotgun

Does anybody record ambiences with a shotgun? I mean, it seems feasible if you are careful about it and then piecing them together in post. It almost seems more ideal since you c …
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Stereo ambience - microphone selection

Hey all. I Have a hard time deciding if i shall order the MKH 8040/MKH 30 MS rig or not. Today i record most of my stereo ambiences with NT4 in a blimp into my SD702. Actually i th …
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Zoom H4N - Opinions?

There are so many reviews spread around the web about the Zoom H4N, some of them praise this recorder, other say some things about bad preamps, hissy mics etc... Who has had exper …
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Quiet Ambience Recording Tips

So I got a chance to visit an old church today which is over 300,000 square feet total with my recording equipment to poke around and see what I could find to record. Not a soul wa …
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Microphone Disguising

I love the story Ren Klyce tells in his Soundworks profile for Benjamin Button about how one of the field recordists recorded ambiences inside retirement homes to capture completel …
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Ambients from Tokyo

Hi Guys, I am now editing the sound for a documentry with some footage shooted in Tokyo, I've been looking for some ambients in my library, but still unhappy with the result. If so …
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general ambiences with street music performance

I made some street recordings with music playing in background. In one case, it was a musician, who was improvising on a saxophone in a metro station. In another, i recorded a city …
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Getting ambience when it is really quiet.

Hi there, I just got back from an amazing weekend in the lowvelt of South Africa recording birds, leopards, lions and of course, ambience. It is winter here so a lot of the bird l …
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City ambiences: what do you need?

I live in Chicago, and lately I've been doing a fair amount of ambience recording in the various neighborhoods and downtown. So many city ambiences on SFX CDs sound like Manhattan …

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