Article called  The Sound of Silence published on server Conde Nast Traveler:

There are fewer and fewer places to flee the cacophony of human activity, but much more is at stake than peace and quiet: The noise from gas drills, airplanes, and other industry is drowning out mating calls, disrupting migrations, and driving species to the brink. VIRGINIA MORELL reports on the world’s last quiet places

You can discover more in interesting article from Oregon’s National Park called Crater Lake. In park newspaper Acoustic Technician Scott McFarland wrote about measuring impact of noise (unwanted sound) to environment in park.

There is nicely discussed impact of aircraft and fast cars. Nowadays is very hard to find really quite environment. This problem is very general because when you working in music industry you faced to similar problem – try to record nice dialogs in very quite environment. I have this problem very often.

I think that is time to think about sound and noise pollution. Dig into article and tell me what do you think. I started to jogging without MP3 player and trying to listen carefully what is happening around me…

Noise in Our Nationals Park - Author: Crater Lake National Park and Scott McFarland

You can read more in their newspapers or Crater Lake National Park website

Olympus LS-100 (source: Olympus America website)

This beast is called Olympus LS-100 and looks as tool from future Parameters look very well: 4 GB internal memory extensible to 64GB and standard 92 kHz @ 24 bit recording resolution which is suitable for most audio recording situations.

We all knew that this is not Sound Devices 702 or higher, but features, price and portability sometimes matters If you are on budget you know what I mean.

I really love my “old” Olympus LS-11 it is major part of my recording gear. But new model offer some features which I am missing on LS11. Most missing feature is XLR connector(s) for microphone(s). I love portability of LS-11 but when you need to do some recording for small documentary you really need at least one boom microphone and contact microphone on wirelesses is big plus (minimally as backup). My Rode NTG-2 is possible to connect through special reduction to mini-jack connector but it is not ideal.

Big question is if it is possible to record more than to channels at same time in example to have recorded ambient sound on small tripod (with usage of onboard microphones) and also make some recording with two boom mics. According to “marketing” texts this feature is in my opinion impossible :/

Sometimes are changes good thing I can sell my old recording gear and buy this one. At first I am really impressed by this new stuff in Olympus family and it is time to find dealer in Czech Republic

Also preparing big transformation of this blog, to first Czech specialized sound blog about sound editing, sound recording, post-production tricks and so on.

Special services, and classes in Prague an surrounding cities. Stay tuned…

Before you start work with any manual supplied with software or hardware. I know that is not ideal when you need fast results immediately, but you can avoid misunderstood or disasters after. I also recommended to read manual before buying any software because technical description of products always lies. Trust me I work in big international company and I cooperate with PR. Manuals cannot lie because fully describe all features of soft (or hardware).

After reading of documentation of Steinberg Nuendo 5 i found that i have many plugins redundant and I have been able to work faster. And as bonus i found many useful tips for situation which i was unable to solve. Same story for FabFilter plugins.

Do not be under stress well known software is key for better performance and good results!

It’s spring I clean the mess now. I restrict my VST  plugins to Nuendo 5 standard plugins, FabFilter (eq, compresor),  NuGen (stereo pack) and excelent Compresor – Tube Tech CL1 from Softube and I am happy.

Bee happy clean up your VST (or RTAS) folder.

Car-wash by bilekt3

But last weekend I made change. I recorded this sound of old tinny gate of our old rowing club hangar…

Tinny gate to old rowing club hangar by bilekt3

Stay tuned…