Sound 5: Sirens

Usually when you're walking down the street and there's an emergency, the firetruck or cop car drives right by you, both blinding you with their lights and making you go deaf with their sirens. Fortunately, as I walked around the city, I picked up cop sirens in the distance and was able to hear them in a more musical state of mind, opposed to the typical panic that they create. It gave me a new opportunity to evaluate the different tones and notes produced by the automated siren, while at the same time I didn't have to deal with a roaring engine driving by. Despite being quiet, the sirens did produce a good sound that really caught my attention.

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Sound 4: Garage Door and Birds

I was walking around on my drift walk and noticed this man walking out towards his garage. I figured, aside from feeling weird watching this guy, that I'd be able to get some good sounds of maybe his car firing up awkwardly or a garage door opening. I got one of the two sounds as I heard him lift the manual garage door open. Although I couldn't see directly into the garage, I figured he must be doing something since it took him awhile to fire up his car. However, in the mean time, the birds, reacting to the door opening, began chirping. It was this sort of sweet melodic tone amidst the crashing of metal on metal. Soon enough, the guy pulled out of the garage and went around the corner.

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Sound 3: Sewer Water

I got a pretty cool sound of some water running down an alley into a sewer. I'd probably regard this as being my best sound. Unfortunately, a car interrupted my recording part way through, but I did get plenty of audio. It almost sounds as if I'm in a cave that's blocked off by a running waterfall. The sound quality is really clear and you can really hear the water crashing down. You really get a good mental image of the water flowing through the grates down into the sewers.

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Sound 2: Howling Cars

When I was walking down the river path, mixed in with the trees was the bridge on Locust. There wasn't anything exciting going on underneath the bridge except for this cool sound. Its tough to describe, but I'll do my best. It was partially like howling winds that you hear if you were in the middle of the countryside and the fields were being pushed around. The other part was the sound you hear as NASCAR drivers go around that track. That sort of cyclical whirring of engines. Depending on the speed of the car both the duration and pitch changed from where I was standing.

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Sound 1: Running Man

I'm still amazed at how much sound this microphone picks up. I saw this guy running down the trail along the river from about 300 feet away. I really noticed how much the angle you take with the microphones affects the sound. You hear him coming more than going. Needless to say, I felt awkward recording the sounds of this guy running, but it was a good sound to say the least. A human sound created in nature. If you close you're eyes and imagine this man running down the path you can really here the soles of his shoes grinding on the pavement.

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