I'd really like to record outside.

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AL P said:
so your thinking of maybe setting up a lil`somethin somethin on the dark side of the moon perhaps??
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That would be cool, unless you're making a Pink Floyd joke in which case I'd have to not laugh because I fucking hate Pink Floyd. :yawn:
 
I've been wanting to record "outside" myself. City streets, restaurants, airports, etc.. You might want to look into the Tascam DR-100. Going up there is the Tascam DR-680, and of course Sound Devices which not only make some of the best, if not THE best field recorders but also field mixers and preamps as well. There is other "stuff" available cheaper but com'on. We're talking about recording outside. It's going to sound a little rough based on the source, we don't need garbage gear adding to that.
 
moresound said:
I never thought that I would live to see the day that this was said about Floyd.
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I can't categorize it any other way. It's boring old hippie shit. I understand they're still wildly popular with the retiree crowd, but I never got into them. Way before my time. anyway, it's just my opinion. It's nothing for you guys to get offended about.
 
I think drums would sound way too dry in the open. But that is the point of it, I guess. Would you have to re-tune stuff ?
 
grimtraveller said:
I think it's a great idea. Better than Ace Frehley's one of recording an album in outer space.
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The drummer (i think) from the Grateful Dead makes music using the sounds of pulsars and quasars from outer space as beats.He gets S.E.T.I. to record them for him.I seen it watching The Universe on the history channel.
 
Fnar... Floyd, Dead Grateful and SETI in one post ...... this is gonna kick off, I can just feel it :)
 
Greg_L said:
Forgive me for not liking sleepy dentist office geezer rock.
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My dentist always has R&B playing...Michael Jackson and that type of stuff.

I wish he would play some Floyd instead! :D
 
I feel 'free' going into the woods sometimes on one of those little palmtop recorder doodads (Zoom H4n). There's a 'forest preserve' nearby). Free from concerns about bugging my neighbors when I scream my lungs out on a lyric, then take it home and plop it down in the rest of the recording on my big cumbersome 8 track that needs a power outlet. Also, I have an old train tunnel that goes under a highway nearby too and other than the homeless guy I sometimes run into who is pretty cool with me (hey I always bring a 6 pack or something when I work on stuff anyway, so the company is kinda cool to have anyway and he thinks its neat when I explained what I'm doing)... you can get some really cool noise in big big tunnels.

I also like to set up about 20 feet away with an extension cord for my headphones and toss in backing vocals singing from that far away and just letting it bounce around the big concrete space and get picked up on the mic. Meh its 'experimental' but I prefer it to over-processing reverb on stuff for a similar effect.

But winter is here. ugh.
 
mcmetal said:
The drummer (i think) from the Grateful Dead makes music using the sounds of pulsars and quasars from outer space as beats.He gets S.E.T.I. to record them for him.I seen it watching The Universe on the history channel.
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I once heard an album that was basically the brainwaves of this guy. They had all these electrodes attached to his head and these ran into some gizmo which then ran to a multitracker. The waves of his brain created all these bleeps and bloops and there was never any particular beat pattern and frankly, it was horrible. It was among the creepiest noises I've ever heard. It was worse than the sounds of whales that they play to pregnant women.
 
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