Martin Paling » Wales (Sounds) http://martinpaling.com Audio Field Recording Blog Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:04:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Earl of Merioneth arrives Porthmadog Harbour Station http://martinpaling.com/2009/06/30/earl-of-merioneth-arrives-porthmadog-harbour-station/ http://martinpaling.com/2009/06/30/earl-of-merioneth-arrives-porthmadog-harbour-station/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:18:36 +0000 Martin http://martinpaling.com/?p=517 This is a recording I made in Wales at the Ffestiniog Railway over a year ago… but I’ve simply not had the chance to listen to it and get it ready to put on the site until now! Audio recording is a strange hobby in that for me at least I spend more time “recording” than I do playing back. That said for me filed recording is about being in location and listening, the recording is still very much a by product.

This short recording features the Double Fairlie steam engine the Earl of Merioneth arriving at Harbour Station Porthmadog. A Hunslet steam loco may be heard greeting it with a whistle at the start of the recording (and if you listen carefully you’ll hear a nearby car reply too!) the Earl may then be heard pulling into the station brakes squealing. I’ve left in a lot of the environmental noise from the nearby road on the Cob… because for me that is just as much a part of the sounds of the railway today as the trains themselves.

The microphone was placed low down quite close to the track so lots of “rail noise”.

Recorded with the ZOOMH4′s internal stereo mic (handheld) and a home made wind gag.

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Photo Credits

I’d like to Matt Buck for allowing me to use his fantastic image in this post(Also in movie)

]]> http://martinpaling.com/2009/06/30/earl-of-merioneth-arrives-porthmadog-harbour-station/feed/ 2 Earl of Merioneth departs Tan-y-Bwlch http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/earl-of-merioneth-departs-tan-y-bwlch/ http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/earl-of-merioneth-departs-tan-y-bwlch/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 22:29:33 +0000 Martin http://martinpaling.com/?p=146 Earl of Merioneth departs Tan-y-Bwlch station on the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales. Recorded from the forest just along the path from the stream… which you can hear in the background.

Recorded with the ZOOMH4′s internal stereo mic (handheld) and a home made wind gag.

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Photo Credits

I’d like to thank the following for allowing me to use their fantastic images in this post(Also in movie)

]]> http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/earl-of-merioneth-departs-tan-y-bwlch/feed/ 0 Earl of Merioneth departs Tan-y-Bwlch in rain http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/earl-of-merioneth-departs-tan-y-bwlch-in-rain/ http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/earl-of-merioneth-departs-tan-y-bwlch-in-rain/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 22:25:50 +0000 Martin http://martinpaling.com/?p=144 On board recording of The Earl of Merioneth pulling a heavily loaded passenger train out of Tan-y-Bwlch in wet conditions. Lots of hissing and slipping.

Recorded with a RØDE NT2 held in a pistol-grip and covered with a deadcat windgag.

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Photo Credits

I’d like to thank the following for allowing me to use their fantastic images in this post(Also in movie)

]]> http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/earl-of-merioneth-departs-tan-y-bwlch-in-rain/feed/ 0 K1 at Rhyd Ddu – Sound Clip http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/k1-at-rhyd-ddu-sound-clip/ http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/k1-at-rhyd-ddu-sound-clip/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 21:38:24 +0000 Martin http://martinpaling.com/?p=118 A world class loco in a world class location, this is definately not a sound recording for the purists: my home-made wind gag for the Zoomh4 proved no match for the skin burning May wind that gets channeled up the Glaslyn Pass to Rhyd Ddu and the feet of Mount Snowdon… 

That said, if I close my eyes and imagine the warmth of the Snowdonia Sun and the scarring winds then i’m right back at Rhyd Ddu.

Recorded with the ZOOMH4′s internal stereo mic (handheld) and a home made wind gag.

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]]> http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/k1-at-rhyd-ddu-sound-clip/feed/ 0 Taliesin Departs Tan-Y-Bwlch http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/taliesin-departs-tan-y-bwlch/ http://martinpaling.com/2009/05/15/taliesin-departs-tan-y-bwlch/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 21:30:50 +0000 Martin http://martinpaling.com/?p=116 Taliesin departs Tan-y-Bwlch station on the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales. Recorded from just after the station garden (up side) nice sounds of the loco hissing and struggling.

Recorded with the ZOOMH4′s internal stereo mic (handheld) and a home made wind gag.

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Recorded with the ZOOMH4′s internal stereo mic (handheld) and a home made wind gag.

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Recorded with the ZOOMH4′s internal stereo mic on a mini tripod and a home made wind gag.

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