Frogs and Planes - an original sound recording

[Armistice]

Frogs and Planes

Still working on an actual song but to give you some clue as to why it can take a while, this is what I have to deal with.

Recorded with an NT2, from inside my apartment

Some of my finest work.

[JD01]

This actually quite a nice little distraction to listen to in the office - blocks out all the wankers without being distracting.

[JD01]

OK, so.

There's not the muttered voices are a little low in the mix and the timing isn't quite right.
You need way more reverb on the plane.
And the frogs are out of phase.

You probably need to re-track this before we discuss remixing it anymore.

[Armistice]

LOL - I think the local buddhists are having a chant at the end too... a few bells rung...

[JD01]

LOL - I think the local buddhists are having a chant at the end too... a few bells rung...

Well you definitely need to bring them up in the mix. A complete novice effort this.

[Bubba]

Chanting sounds buried? - Check

Frog sounds piercing and over loud? - Check

Aeroplane noise feeble and over loud? - Check

Zero improvement after five years of people trying and better trying to help you with your recording of extraneous sounds? Check.

Armi, why do you bother asking for mix advice if you never act upon it?

[Armistice]

I'm just having trouble with the levels in the overheads, and the separation.

I think if I notch it at about 500Hz and run it through a Behringer distressor it'll be much better. Or maybe I need to use a dynamic microphone to HUNT THE NOISY FUCKERS DOWN AND BLUDGEON THEM TO DEATH.

I have crickets as well now. They showed up late at the studio and so I'll have to use an insect VSTi to get them in. It's always the crickets.

[Bubba]

It's always the crickets.

As Buddy Holly was oft heard to complain.

[vomitHatSteve]

So this is a cover of "To Sheila", right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oizHolaZQJQ

[rayc]

Inner west problems mate.
The cicadas, frogs & crickets are imported to make high density seem less so.
The local council has upward firing speakers secreted amongst the lantana and Parkour objects.
At least you didn't have the banshee wail of 100+ Sulphur Crested cockatoos settling in for the evening.

[Greg_L]

Seriously? That's what you hear day and night in your apartment? I suppose that would be pretty annoying for recording.

I used to spend a lot of time in NYC back in the 90s and it was constant cars, horns, sirens, noise. No "nature" noise, just big city noise. I liked it, but I wasn't trying to record in it either.

[Armistice]

Inner west problems mate.
The cicadas, frogs & crickets are imported to make high density seem less so.
The local council has upward firing speakers secreted amongst the lantana and Parkour objects.
At least you didn't have the banshee wail of 100+ Sulphur Crested cockatoos settling in for the evening.

Sounds very Wayward Pines ray...

Not a huge number of cockatoos around here but I do get occasional raids from rainbow lorikeets - there's a half dozen or so that are generally in the area, but every now and then they invite their mates over for a game of Quidditch in the courtyard outside my place.

And don't start me on the bats.

[Armistice]

Seriously? That's what you hear day and night in your apartment? I suppose that would be pretty annoying for recording.

I used to spend a lot of time in NYC back in the 90s and it was constant cars, horns, sirens, noise. No "nature" noise, just big city noise. I liked it, but I wasn't trying to record in it either.

Not always. It was a rainy day, which gets the frogs excited. I've learnt to be aware of silence and to grab the bits that I can if I'm recording vocals. The planes are reasonably constant - although some nights you don't get any at all, other nights, mainly Sundays, don't bother even trying to record.

I'd finished at this stage - I'd spent about an hour or so doing vocal takes in relative quiet - and then the frogs started. And the mic was still up so I just moved it over near the doors, which are glass and by that stage were open obviously I keep it all closed up when recording. The frogs still would have been too loud through the closed up doors though. And I still haven't worked out where the fucking buddhist chanters are - that's normally on a Monday. ABBA covers band on a Tuesday. Not every week, but once or twice a month.

[rayc]

It is a cool recording though. Here's a phot of my flat. here's a video of of me climbing the stairs with the shopping and here're the night sounds.

[RatsoRizzo]

FINALLY some good tuneage up in this piece.