Lets face it, most flights are at best a little arduous & at worst, anxiety producing.. Thanks to global paranoia what should be a simple process of check ticket & passport, board, travel & ARRIVE! has become a situation of GUILTY! (until proven innocent)
Where has the romance & excitement of travel gone?
Well…. it requires a strong will (& the ability to rise above a scenario where security requirements dump confiscated “security threats” in a bin, right beside where every passenger must pass) to endure… and endure we shall!
Anyway enough philosophising!
I had the best flight of my entire life today, and this is just part 1 of documenting that flight, because I only just got home & haven’t had time to transfer all the sound & video – this is just a short rant & some photos…. But the context is yet another ode to the joys of working on film and having the ultimate reason to make contact & access some amazing experience/s because, well, frankly it is necessary for the film! We simply HAVE to have these sounds & any variation on ‘no’ as a response is just not acceptable, and at best its just a delaying tactic reality sometimes uses to stall for time….
The splutters, firing & revs of those gorgeous radial engines was like hearing the best guitarist in the world (hi Jimi!) fire up their amp, check the tuning & then hit the most exquisite chord you’ve ever heard…. and then ride the feedback for the next 2 hours!
I could not stop grinning!! The light glinting off the circle each prop burnt into my retina just made me think; I was created to be here at Ardmore Airport midday on a Sunday to experience this…..
contact mic position 1:
DPA 4060s position 1:
Mt Ruapehu passby!
contact mic position 4:
radial engines FTW!
we owe our lives to rivets
Oh I envy you ;). I guess you had to be very anxious to get to your studio to play with the results… What did the contact mics pick?
On the window and on the side of the cabin they picked up a nice intense mechanical drone, but in the cockpit I found a great spot on a metal shelf where it picked up the beating between the engines, so the vibration would be quite quiet and then slowly build up & then decay again…
Will post some examples later in the week once I have all the sound & video laoded up etc
Looking forward to hear it.
Wicked! My aural taste buds are beginning to salivate at the prospect of hearing the results!
Awesome! We had a lot of fun doing the DC4 recordings as well 😉 quite jealous that you got to have a flight over such beautiful scenery though 😉
the DC4 recordings are another step up again in radial engine heaven – well done!!
bugger! but i felt those engines as they warmed up move through my body in a freaky way and it was good, the power of that and the sound of it, to be close as that, im sure is something i will never get to do again.
Wow, this is one of my dreams. Always though about sampling a airplane!
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