A Field Recording of a Bell Tower in North Atlanta

I used my video camera with a DI/Phantom Rig to get a small condenser mic into the input (I used an AT Pro 37). It was the only thing worth recording in about a 10 mile radius from where I was at. Long live tha suburbs. Below is a mono wav file of the above file.  A nice tilted video shot as well.

----ATL Bell Tower Mono .wav file----

Bell Tower Information aka Campanology aka Campanile

I like this idea of field recording bell towers, sounds like a good way to kill time with microphones. It may be helpful to know about some bell tower history and why they roll the way they roll.  it would be cool to document at various distances from the epicenter as well.

KU Noon Bell Tower Recording

I was under the impression that the KU Bell Tower did a special ring at noon. I was on campus on Saturday, and I thought it did a long chime deal at the height of the sun. Today is Sunday, so I got up near it and set up my little laptop based field recording rig and waited for the noon toll. It did it's regular ring, with 12 strikes afterwards. I even hung out until 12:15 pm to make sure that wasn't the special ring (which it wasn't). I left the recording running during the 15 minutes and got a dog running in front of the mic (which you can also hear during the noon recording chimes).

The Noon Toll- 2-28-10

The 12:15pm Toll- 2-28-10

The dog running in front of my mic, with a train whistle prelude

KU Bell Tower Recording

I am thinking about making a collection of field recordings of Bell Towers. When I lived in Sevilla, I always thought it would be cool to do that with the Giralda, but I didn't have the gear to do it proper. KU's bell tower is one of the most notable buildings on campus, and it rings, and I have my gear. I also was smoking in Kansas City the other day on a my friends deck and heard anothe ring in the distance (near Westport)and I thought it would be a good project to work on. Below is a link to my first try on this.


Signal Path= Audio Technica Pro 37, Lexicon Lambda, Cubase SE. I did limit the recording, but did not reduce any gain (I mainly used a limiter to normalize the track). In mono. I was about 100ft or so from the bell tower on a cold ass day, 01-10-2010 at 6pm (dusk this time of year) with the mic on the trunk of my car. At around 16 secs in to the recording, you can hear a car drive by on this sandy snow mush that is on the ground right now.

KU Bell Tower Field Recording- 01-10-2010 6pm