Field Recording places

Any of you guys field recorded at any places and got some good results? Anyone think of a great place to go but never executed it? Discuss here.

I got a friend coming into town on Sunday and I want to think of someplace really creative to go

climb a tree

go sit in some public loos and catch the natural ambiance

a cave

go when it rains - it makes it harder to record but its worth it

trains are good

or try a lake

best places are where there is movement what ever this movement is (wind, water, animals, people...)

also places that have strange acoustics by them self

listen out for unusual repetitive noises, try stealthing it and just hanging out around lots of people, its amazing what you can catch.

also, cool noises in industrial parks near power stations or anything with huge machinery

Get a binaural set and just walk. Listen to Janet Cardiff's Munich walks with nothing more than a pair of binaural mic's.

  ten fingers ten toes said:

Get a binaural

i can very much second this, my binaurals were wicked fun.

a field

  acid1 said:

Any of you guys field recorded at any places and got some good results? Anyone think of a great place to go but never executed it? Discuss here.

 

I got a friend coming into town on Sunday and I want to think of someplace really creative to go

home depot

wallmart

Sears

I've totally already field recorded at home depot and got awesome results!

  kaen said:

  ten fingers ten toes said:

Get a binaural

 

i can very much second this, my binaurals were wicked fun.

which binaural sets did you use? in combination with which pre-amp & recorder?

i had a pair of soundman okm classics with the a3 adapter, can highly recommend them

http://www.dacs-audio.com/Distribution/Sou...undman_main.htm

used in conjuction with an m-audio microtrack

  acid1 said:

I've totally already field recorded at home depot and got awesome results!

i havent yet only dreamed of doing so (im lazy) so thanks i willdefinitly be doing it after hearing you got awesome results. where were your best resuts lumber section?

favorite place is a park with a large kids play area, wooded

large public places without background music

sometimes at ihop late at night, the smoking section has some unusual conversations to capture.

camp grounds

  Adjective said:

large public places without background music

im really surprised how manby awesome samples ive gotten from background music playing places. i know itsweird, why sample music playing off a loudspeaker when you could sample it other ways? well sometimes the ambience combined with it and the acousticness of it sounds bad ass when put in a song. if you chop it small enough it could just sound liek a dirty vinyl record music sample with some extra surprises.

recording people when they havent a clue... the headphone technique always works well. my mp3 player has a built in mic and records in 16bit wav and i got a lot of funny/cool/crunch samples with it. got one of my girlfriend talking about bagels and lox for about 15 minutes. i played it for her on the ride home. it was good fun.

i went on a binge one weekend recording wind chimes with my r-09... i get weak at the knees with wind chimes.

bowling alley

what do you guys do when some hick is like, IS THAT SOME TERRORIST SHIT WHATRE U DOIN

and i still have a minidisc full of stuff i recorded in high school years ago, went around getting everyone i knew to say stupid crap

  Ghostbusters III said:

  Adjective said:

large public places without background music

 

 

im really surprised how manby awesome samples ive gotten from background music playing places. i know itsweird, why sample music playing off a loudspeaker when you could sample it other ways? well sometimes the ambience combined with it and the acousticness of it sounds bad ass when put in a song. if you chop it small enough it could just sound liek a dirty vinyl record music sample with some extra surprises.

i do recall some minidisc recording while walking through an arcade that sounded great, the strange blend of all the themes, sound effects, and conversations. i guess i focus on public places without bg music because it's so hard to find around here

  goffer said:

i went on a binge one weekend recording wind chimes with my r-09... i get weak at the knees with wind chimes.

i collect doorbells! the off/on bell tone type are great, get the r09 right underneath the... thing that chimes and you get the mechanical buzzing along with the chime with the "on" position and release it to get a clean chime with the mechanism winding down

  hahathhat said:

what do you guys do when some hick is like, IS THAT SOME TERRORIST SHIT WHATRE U DOIN

i worry about that sometimes when i've got all the wires hanging off me, i've just been told to leave by security (i record at night mostly) and they were real nice about it so no bad experience yet. the worst is when i put it somewhere remote and someone finds it and starts asking about it, right next to it, clipping everything

  Adjective said:

  Ghostbusters III said:

  Adjective said:

large public places without background music

 

 

im really surprised how manby awesome samples ive gotten from background music playing places. i know itsweird, why sample music playing off a loudspeaker when you could sample it other ways? well sometimes the ambience combined with it and the acousticness of it sounds bad ass when put in a song. if you chop it small enough it could just sound liek a dirty vinyl record music sample with some extra surprises.

i do recall some minidisc recording while walking through an arcade that sounded great, the strange blend of all the themes, sound effects, and conversations. i guess i focus on public places without bg music because it's so hard to find around here

 

  goffer said:

i went on a binge one weekend recording wind chimes with my r-09... i get weak at the knees with wind chimes.

i collect doorbells! the off/on bell tone type are great, get the r09 right underneath the... thing that chimes and you get the mechanical buzzing along with the chime with the "on" position and release it to get a clean chime with the mechanism winding down

 

  hahathhat said:

what do you guys do when some hick is like, IS THAT SOME TERRORIST SHIT WHATRE U DOIN

i worry about that sometimes when i've got all the wires hanging off me, i've just been told to leave by security (i record at night mostly) and they were real nice about it so no bad experience yet. the worst is when i put it somewhere remote and someone finds it and starts asking about it, right next to it, clipping everything

All brilliant advice, thank you!

My H2 Zoom + crap ear buds it comes with looks like a shitty ipod, I've never been asked what I'm doing but it mostly looks like i'm picking new songs to play.

public transport

in a lift/elevator

busy cafe/pub

mall

next to a preaching religious zealot

factory/production line (just ask)

busy market

harbour

zoo

church - during sermon or choir/organ practice

skate park

ice rink

sports ground/hall

swimming pool viewing gallery

uni/college lectures

court public gallery

karting track

museum

library

beach

wind farm

power station

or get a contact mic -

record electrical equipment whirring

neighbours arguing through walls

heart beats/ stomach rumbles

I live very close to the Greenwich foot tunnel:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_foot_tunnel

It's almost 400 feet long, cylindrical, tiled... in other words the acoustics are totally unique and any sound you make down there sounds like dripping liquid ambient gold. I've taken countless recordings there.

So, try a tunnel!