Comments on: Sunday Sound Thought #69 – Always Be Listening

By: Holly Early

Holly Early — Sun, 14 May 2017 12:50:41 +0000

Thank-you Ashley! I resonate with your post so much! I’m about to finish my last year of studying Contemporary Art Practice at university and struggling to keep my enthusiasm. However your article reminded me of why I work with sound with all its unpredictability, surprises and enjoyment. It also re-activated my listening.

By: Richard Gould

Richard Gould — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:58:38 +0000

Great thought Ashley, resonates with my own experience very much. I’ve got several years of recordings amounting to about 120GB of sounds, almost all of which were found, not planned. Always have a recorder with you, and make sure it’s practical. Having a rig with innumerable inputs, a boom pole with a 5.1 mic on the end is all well and good, but is it as useful as the stereo recorder you can carry in your back pocket? My daily rig is a typical, inexpensive stereo x-y recorder with 2 XLR inputs and a small super-cardioid condenser on a tiny compact handle. It’s almost always with me and has just the right balance of flexibility between being able to capture stereo ambiences and mono sources with decent cancelation.

By: Harper W. Harris

Harper W. Harris — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:46:34 +0000

Great article! The “Just Record It, Dammit” part especially resonates, I find myself in that mindset all the time and need to let go sometimes and just record a sound with what I have handy!

By: Dave Dorgan

Dave Dorgan — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 03:22:53 +0000

Great observations, and I totally agree. The phrase, “Oh, great sound” is either said or thought at least daily. I had a project this weekend that needed some found sounds. I settled on sounds from an ER and crowd noise from an MLS soccer match. Both were recorded with an iPhone, because that’s all I had at the time. They worked fine for the purpose.