On Recording Outdoors

 At your risk.

Today at about 7am the stand supporting the Shure Unidyne B microphone was bravely placed outside on the balcony.

Acoustic guitar (with thinner strings at tuned higher than 440Hz in order to create slightly higher than times 2 overtones which are more euphonic than x2, that is second harmonic octaves) and male voice were recorded by direct connection of the microphone to the right channel of the SONY TC-D5M.

The microphone was about 24in away from the mouth, 1 foot or so higher than the head.

The recording has some of the amazing sound for example of the 40's to 60's era.

Crisp sound, with detail and no offending bass.

Since every recording sounds more reverberant than real life, a microphone has no brain [reference]. recording outdoors sounds somehow magic.

The birds was a problem! In fact the bird sounded so loud and crispy clear with amazing overtones that it was mistakenly thought not to be in the recording!

Reference: Cinema Engineering (this book was found as reference on Elements of Sound Recording - Frayne, Wolfe)