Saw Louder, We Can't Hear You

I want to start this post off by saying that our sound studio is no where near as acoustically treated as it needs to be. We know this and we want to fix it, but it is completely out of the question with the budget right now.

With that being said, the past two weeks they have been doing construction in our building. This week hasn't been terrible, a few knocks every now and again, but it is still extremely annoying when working with audio. Last week was absolutely terrible though. I'm not exactly sure what they were doing, possibly sawing through metal beams to cut doors or whatnot, but we couldn't even think about working on sound. This is a little taste of what we listened to for a few days straight in the studio.

  Construction sawing behind wall by Googe


Recording Notes: Recorded with a Zoom H1

Snowocalypse Atlanta 2011

Here in Georgia, we don't get snow often. When we do, no one knows how to handle it and everything shuts down. The people that try to get out and drive in it either don't know how to drive in the snow, or end up being the victim of someone who doesn't know how to drive in the snow. For this reason, I always "opt" to stay home and let the impending doom pass. By "opt" I really mean that I am forced to, seeing that my subdivision contains many shaded hills that never unfreeze.

We've had a few inches of snow on the ground for a couple days now. Which means that I have had a couple days of not being able to get to the studio. Since we don't get snow very often I took this time to get some recordings of footsteps and body falls in the snow.


Snowsteps by Googe

Snow Bodyfalls by Googe

Recording Notes: Recorded with a Rode NTG3 into a Zoom H4n. The body falls were created using the standard technique of packing a duffel bag with some books and throwing it around.