2011-03-31 Unnamed Song - Feadog D Tin Whistle

This is a demonstration of the capability of a decent, cheap mic and Adobe Audition to produce fairly clean audio with some nice sound effects in a non-ideal recording environment. First part is the post-processed audio, second is the original recording with no noise reduction/post-processing/audio effects.

This is playing an unnamed short tune (that I made up a few days ago) on my Feadog D tin whistle. Recorded with an Audio Technica ATR-3350 Lavalier microphone (about $20 on Amazon.com) plugged into my laptop's mic port with a not-so-stellar sound card. Noise reduction done with Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit) to filter out the sound card's noise contribution, then filtered for general noise in the recording from the mic response. Turned out to have pretty good sound (IMO) once the post-processing was done.

Since this is an Irish whistle, it only seems appropriate to add some reverb to make it sound like you're playing near some mountainous caves. Besides, my room's acoustics are rather flat and uninteresting :). Adobe Audition's "Church" preset was used to make the reverb, as well as make it have some stereo binaural cues, despite the original recording only having one channel (only one mic).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• tin whistle
• ATR-3350
• audio technica
• lavalier
• microphone
• feadog d
• feadog
• adobe
• audition
• adobe audition

[poptsf]

give me back my minute...

[whistlem0nkey]

Sounds a bit like 'Down by the Sally Gardens' in places.