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“The ease of connectivity of the 744T is great,” adds Watson. He also recorded in double-mid side (DMS), a surround sound format that uses three microphones and three channels of his 744T to create four or six audio channels in post production. Even though Watson was recording to this less common surround sound format, he was able to decode it and listen to a stereo approximation of his recordings. The 744T has a B-format decoder in the headphone amplifiers, which proved especially handy for the Frozen Planet project. The 744T works directly with ST450, with Watson using all four-line inputs to record the signals in B format. In fact, it was so cold that on several occasions I had to stop before my 744T did.”įor his rig, Watson set up his 744T with a Sound Field ST450, an ambisonic recording instrument. The construction, portability and reliability of my Sound Devices gear were fantastic. “If you go to the South Pole and the equipment doesn't work, you have no way to fix or replace it, and you’ve wasted your time. “The reliability of my kit is absolutely paramount, especially when working in such remote locations,” says Watson. Despite being exposed to such extreme cold, Watson’s Sound Devices 744T unit performed flawlessly.
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In order to document how climate change is affecting landforms such as glaciers and ice shelves, and the extent of sea ice, the series required Watson and the production team to capture a comprehensive record of the natural history in the polar regions.įor his work on Frozen Planet, Watson, who was based at McMurdo Station, the National Science Foundation’s United States Antarctic Program base on Ross Island, located in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, flew to the South Pole and also worked on the continent’s ice shelf and ice plateau, where it was -47.2 degrees Fahrenheit (-44 degrees Celsius) on some occasions, with a wind chill.
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For his work on Frozen Planet, the BAFTA award-winning documentary series co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel, he turned to Sound Devices 744T Recorder and MixPre Compact Field Mixer for his portable audio recording needs.įrozen Planet, presented by Sir David Attenborough, is a seven-part series focusing on life and the environment in the Arctic and Antarctic. Album Description744T and MixPre Lend Incredible Audio to Nature Documentary Series Frozen Planet.Ĭool Running For Sound Devices On Frozen PlanetĪNTARCTICA - As a location sound recordist specializing in capturing wildlife and natural history audio, Chris Watson has traveled all over the world, enduring some of the most extreme climates and harshest working conditions on Earth to get compelling sound. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. In certain moments, you wonder if Watson is not playing God - come on, he did make rain fall at this precise moment, right? Weather Report is totally absorbing and one of the best listening experiences to be had in the art of field recording. Index points mark out chapters, moments where the action is interrupted and resumes at a later point, from another perspective. Each different sound becomes a new character in these three stories, a character you may grow attached to. The crackling of the natural ship (it really sounds like a huge boat made of wood planks), the wind, and the songs of seagulls form the core of the soundscape. "Vatnajökull," the third and last piece, proposes another very different setting: a glacier that lies on the southeast corner of Iceland. Rain is the predominant sound, but there is a lot more going on, including a number of cows saluting the recordist. "The Lapaich" takes place from September to December in a Scottish highland glen (again seamlessly reduced to 18 minutes).
A lion's roar opens this 18-minute reduction of a 14-hour recording of nature playing by its own rules. In "Ol-Olool-O," that would be in the Kenyan savannah. Plus, his recording skills put you right where he wants you to be.
His nature recordings are left untouched, but he selects, blends, and edits the sounds together to form aural story lines of great beauty and immediacy. He is not a field recording purist, but he doesn't turn his prime materials into abstract sound art, either. Again, Watson delivers a platter of amazing sounds. It took five years for sound recordist extraordinaire Chris Watson to come up with a follow-up to the 1998 CD Outside the Circle of Fire.
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