From the Naren Summer Ranch<\/p>\n
KEY FEATURES:
\n– The sound of ancient Kazakh nomads in China, will be lost.
\n– herds, horses and sheeps surrounded my mic
\n– The Naren river, massive valley and pinewoods
\n– 50 tracks of 5.0 version, 19.5GB
\n– 50 track of stereo, 8.1GB
\n– 96kHz, 24bit recording and post-production<\/p>\n
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BEHIND THE SOUND:
\n– Naren summer ranch is at the most western border of China. Most of the nomads are Kazakh.
\nThey are probably the last nomads in China. Nomads move from ranch to ranch by following
\nthe seasons. When I was there in September 2019, it\u2019s the right time of they are moving from
\nthe summer ranch to the winter ranch. Each family of them were busy on moving life stuffs and
\nanimals. Animals sounds, herdsmen shouts and pickup trucks sound played together on
\nnarrow soil roads in the deep mountain forests. In the early morning before sun rising,
\nherdsmen release their herds, sheeps, horses and even camels out from grids. Ox babies keeps
\nshouting and urgently looks for mothers. And ox mothers urge children to move. And herdsmen
\nbawl to the animals to keep the order\u2026\u2026this kind of soundscape has been there for over 600
\nyears. An now it will be gone. Because the mountains and environment there can\u2019t undertake
\nso many animals. They are encouraged to settle down and hold less animals. Instead, the
\ntourism will bring more incoming to them. But it means, nomads life will be lost.<\/p>\n
– It\u2019s very difficult to enter and visit that place. I planed to recording pinewoods sound at there.
\nBut after getting there, I found it\u2019s wrong season because there is no wind. In the meantime, I
\nrealized there is more valuable and precious sound at there – the life of nomads. It\u2019s right time
\nand right place. So I moved my focus from pinewoods sound to their life, the animals and valley
\nriver. Even I tried to capture the purely nature soundscape by placing mic at good position. It
\nshall be a living and well balanced mix in microphones and no need any multi-layers mixing in
\npost-production.<\/p>\n
– In some of the recordings, there are trucks and bikes. I eventually decided to keep them.
\nBecause they are part of current nomads life.<\/p>\n
– DMS recording setup brings heavier challenges to find good and right position than stereo
\nrecording. And it takes much more time on post-production. Certainly it bring more joy and
\ndelights.I shall get there again during next spring.<\/p>\n
– After carefully testing, finally I decided to have 5.0 and stereo versions. You can easily reduce
\nor simply mute the center track if you need Quad version. From DMS to 5.0 version, I basically
\nused the DMS plugin by Schoeps. This plugin really works well. The stereo version was not
\nsimply from downmix or using the MS part. After sort of testing, I manually tuned and balanced
\nthe sources particularly for the stereo version.<\/p>\n
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The Surround version include all Stereo tracks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"