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That's all she wrote? Just one huge boom and nothing else? Apparently so. This happened at 12:54 local time, as I was preparing my lunch. Sound captured from microphones in my back garden.
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Joseph King
Joseph King
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Just based off that one boom, I think that's all she needed to say. Very concise. :)
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@jdking92 Now if only certain podcasts could be that concise, eh?... This fits my personal methodology very well.
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Joseph King
Joseph King
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Right. just 10 to 30 seconds of material and you'd be golden. They'd be more like podbites I suppose.
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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It may rain and boom more later, you can listen live if you like that sort of thing, at http://2.onj.me/outside.m3u
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Toni Barth
Toni Barth
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What does your setup look like? Like, which mics, how do you route it into your house and stream it, presumably via icecast?
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@ToniBarth 2x BehringerXM8500 on a stereo bar, Raspberry Pi4 4GB in the living room which is resting on the window ledge inside the house. The XLR cables come through the bottom of the window and I just slammed and locked the window on the cables. They're thick enough to stand it, so don't care if they're a little kinked. They've been out there constantly in changing weather since 2016 and still working. I think I've changed the cables a couple of times since that time, but not the mics.
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Toni Barth
Toni Barth
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And no covering or wind/rain protection for the mics, or are they located in a position where rain/wind will just barely affect them, like under a roof or something?
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@ToniBarth Oh no, we have no back porch or anything like that. I put very crappy windscreens over them which doesn't help too much, but if you listen during particularly heavy rain, you'll hear musical micstand madness as the rain plinks off of the elastic bands around the shockmounts.
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Toni Barth
Toni Barth
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OK so the mics are exposed to water in rain rather regularly? I'm always particularly careful to prevent that from happening, although i'm usually fiddling around with much more expensive mics. I guess destroying $20 mics in pouring rain is much less critical than $500 mics or pricier. I just don't know how they stand water, especially in the case that it gets into the sockets of the XLR plugs.
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@ToniBarth They buzz occasionally when wet, but dry themselves out overtime. And these are very purposefully cheap mics for that reason. Yep.
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Talon
Talon
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that sounds suspiciously not like thunder. lol
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x0
x0
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@talon Yeah it sounds like the kind of thing I'd expect to hear during wartime, or perhaps a military training exercise. Granted I haven't actually been near either of those so I could be wildly incorrect. And I don't think anyone would run a military training exercise that close to residences smack in the thick of London.
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Talon
Talon
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@x0 now we find out there was an explosion at a chemical factory somewhere in London. That's what it kinda sounded like to me haha
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x0
x0
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@talon Now that, I ahve been near. Refinery explosion. Apparently launched a fireball into the sky and the university I went to some ways away closed for the day. The blast shattered windows from some distance at 3 in the morning. Unsure about that initial woomf though.
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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Several years ago, it hailed pretty hard for a short period of time. The ice was bouncing off of the microphone shockmounts in a sort of musical way, so it plinks on the left channel and plonks on the right channel sometimes. https://onj.me/media/weathersounds/Musical_Hail.flac

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Quin
Quin
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It's really funny that you'd post this now, because we got a massive hale storm a few days ago and I wondered how it would sound to one of these.
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Quin
Quin
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I do after the fact, but it's scary when the hale is so loud that it actually sounds like a window is going to break.
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