A Complete Waste Of Time

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Modern Day Myth Prod. LLC

I spent Sunday afternoon into Sunday Evening in a park we shot in last year with my Tascam DCM100 to record room tone. Between music from an annoying ice cream truck to constant passing of cars to skate boarding kids to air planes to passing trains, 99% of everything I tried to record is garbage.

I'll try another park next weekend.
 
Is this room tone or ambience? If it's "room tone" that's why you record it on the day of the shoot; it will match what was going on when you were shooting. (But you already know that, don't you?)

Either way, if you want it really quiet try between midnight and sunrise.

And don't get rid of what you recorded; put it all into your library with some notes - ice cream truck, passing of cars, skate boarding, planes, trains, etc. You may not have gotten what you wanted, but you may have gold for another project. I have hours and hours of ambient atmospheres that have proven useful over the years, and dozens of "accidental" recordings that have been wonderful additions to my library.

And, of course, if you believe in Murphy's Law go out and try to record lots of noisy things and you'll end up with lots of "empty." :D :D :D
 
I'll bet all of that stuff was there last Sunday, you just didn't notice it. Take a trip to the woods. Get some ambiance. That's my non-expert opinion.
 
I came up with a good solution with the help of Google. I found all the ambience and sound effects I needed as free downloads on the Internet. Even the birds and squirrels match what is native where we were shooting.
 
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