One of the theme that my classmate comes up for the collaborative release is step out of comfort zone, therefore, I borrowed different gears from ORB for this recording trip. For recorder, I used Sound Device Mix-pre 6 which have much better quality pre-amp compare to Zoom H5. For microphones, I used Sanken CMS 50 which I never used any mid-side microphones before that. Hence, before that, I did some research of mid-side mics and try to understand how it work. At first, I thought the Side mic can capture stereo audio but turn out it is just a Figure-8 pattens which they don’t device as left or right. Another issues is the decode but luckily Mix-pre have build in MS decode which save some time for post production.
For the recording location, I followed the canal next to my home and it leaded me to Victoria Park. I recorded a lot of bird songs and duck sounds there. When I was leaving the park, I found there is a small pipe in the canal where they have interesting watery bubble sounds. By using CMS 50 and Mix-pre 6, I can capture it clearly and it sounds like the waterfall on headphone where in real life, it just a tiny little sounds. Then I kept following the canal and found there is one narrowboat with a quite loud engine and this reparative low frequency attract me to record it from distance. Then I found Mile End Park where is much more quite and have different duck spice.