{"id":1509,"date":"2010-01-23T09:58:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2010-01-23T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:58:24","slug":"the-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/archives\/1509","title":{"rendered":"The Plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bird recordists don't often use boom microphones like this, but I couldn't resist the image. Photo by Joel Hay (Creative Commons 2.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eric DeFonso has been toying with the idea of getting into sound recording for some time.\u00a0 On his blog<\/a>, he reports that he’s finally taking the plunge.<\/p>\n

Eric hesitated about getting into sound recording for the same reason I did originally — he thought all the good recordings had been made already.\u00a0 But I think nothing is further from the truth, and it seems I managed to convince him of that.\u00a0 Now he’s signed up for the 2010 Macaulay Sound Recording Workshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a quick thought experiment.\u00a0 Take a moment to think about how many people you know who take bird photographs as a hobby.\u00a0 Now think about how many amateur sound recordists you know.\u00a0 The second number is far smaller than the first, of course.<\/p>\n

Here in Colorado alone, the photo editor for our journal Colorado Birds<\/em><\/a> has a list of over 30 people he can call on when he needs publication-quality bird photos.\u00a0 The list isn’t even close to comprehensive, and it only samples amateurs.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I can only think of six people in the state who record bird sounds at all<\/em> — and that includes a couple who are just getting started, one who basically retired from sound recording years ago, and one who barely spends any time in the state anymore.<\/p>\n

Why are people still taking bird photos?\u00a0 Why are they still taking up the hobby?\u00a0 Haven’t all the good photographs been taken?\u00a0 No, of course they haven’t.\u00a0 So why worry that all the good sounds have been recorded?<\/p>\n

People take photos for many reasons — for enjoyment, for aesthetic pleasure, to memorialize their experiences, to teach themselves something.\u00a0 All these reasons are just as valid when it comes to sound recording.\u00a0 A sound recording can snap you back to a particular place and time, right into the middle of an old experience, in a way that even a photo can’t do.\u00a0 It’s one of the reasons why radio is still alive and well in the era of the Internet.<\/p>\n

Just some things to think about if you, too, have been tempted to take the sound recording plunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take a moment to think about how many people you know who take bird photographs as a hobby. Now think about how many amateur sound recordists you know. The second number is far smaller than the first, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}