I'm the kind of person who will walk across the breadth of downtown Toronto, which is like 15 km, just for the hell of it, to watch the people and scenery change from suburbs to neighbourhood cores to ritzy shops to skyscrapers and then drop down into a ravine where the leaves are falling and all you hear is the wind blowing, then along a river under a bridge where the subway train rattles by a hundred feet above you, then down to the beach, etc. Hours of just walking.
@photopuck would love to hear some sound recordings of some of your walks...
@anarchygarden yeah, the sounds are pretty great, especially all the different languages one hears in Toronto.
@photopuck this is my new portable #fieldrecording kit, haven't recorded anything particularly amazing with it yet but hope to start recording it all the time wherever I might end up and think "this sounds cool" ... https://mastodon.social/media/lRsUkozzVAAhj7uf-m8 https://mastodon.social/media/cr3KziA21mW3vVZaBrk
@photopuck yeah binaural is a cool way to do it...
@photopuck @anarchygarden
Wind noise is a factor as well, I've found. I've experimented with this a bit (and put some binaural files up on Bandcamp) but I found that while the headphones are innocuous when you're in public, it's easiest to record indoors, out of any wind. (also: Hi!)
@signalstation @anarchygarden I am wondering idly if shoulder-mounted mics with wind screens would work. Could be disguised as epaulets or a scarf. Might also lessen the risk of read rotation.
A friend of mine created the FoundSounds app for the iPhone. Pretty neat, you might want to look into.
@signalstation @photopuck howdy! Yeah this tascam without the wind filter (I hate calling it a dead kitten) was terrible for noise even in the slightest breeze and I could even go for more foam and fluff potentially compared to this one. But generally it seems pretty good for the average use case.
@signalstation where did you get the art work for your avatar?
@anarchygarden It's from Binglin Hu (http://binglinhu.com/) who was taking icon commissions at one time.
@anarchygarden That's some really nice gear. If I got into recording my walks, I'd probably go with binaural mic/headphones with a pocket recorder. I think that's the only way one could do street recording and not attract a lot of attention. Problem then becomes keeping one's head forward most/all of the time!