#trowbridge

It snowed last night; not too much, but enough. I got out the Zoom H6 with the built in XY mics set up and headed to the park to get some good crunchy snow walking sounds. It took me a couple of goes to lock everything down - an annoying tinging noise turned out to be my coat zip swinging about. There are still a few knocks from the wire of the in-ear earphones I was using (I didn't want to be too obvious about recording so I didn't use my over ear headphones). That's the trouble with holding the H6 with the XYs on - there's a lot to be knocked and tapped. Using the Manfrotto PIXI Tripod with the legs together as a pistol grip works really well for keeping the clicks and pull noises that I used to get from handling the H6 directly. On the recording we have me walking about on grass, pavement and over drifts of frosted up leaves. We can hear distant train horns, the rumble of the traffic on County Way, people passing by (a child complains that their tummy hurts) and a child in a pushchair crying while the parent's dog yaps (nice echo on that). I tried another recording without the wind protection, but even moving created some thrum and blow as the XY mics are quite prominent on the H6.

Lemmy & chopper Dursley Road, Trowbridge 1972.

The Bear Hotel on Stallard Street.

In the background is the factory chimney of Innox Mill.  On the left is the pump wall (the pump has been removed) that used to stand in front of the Blind House, which was the village lock-up.  Across the bridge is the Bear Hotel, and a police constable sits in the cart travelling over the bridge.

Cradle Bridge

Hill Street floods (Trowbridge, Wiltshire, April 1916).