Mr Keil microphone proximity recording

part 4: 

STE-149 by tufael kabiri

This is the recording of traffic from inside a car.

Because we didn't not have access to a car we had to improvise, thankfully the local shop keeper allowed us to use his shop, at first it did not work well because of the air conditioner but after that it worked well because it turned off. Because we wanted a good sound where you can hear clearly that it is traffic we kept the door very slightly open so that it made the perfect sound and made it seem believable. This worked very well because there was a van reving the engine right outside and made a very good sound.

This is a look of the shop from in doors, as you can see there are a lot of objects such as cardboard plastic and in general a heap of stuff, this helped out when we wanted just the sound of the road and all other sounds would be quite discrete. the glass on the windows also help very much, they cause the sound waves to bounces off from the outside so you don't get a sound which sounds like you are right next to the engine of the car but instead simulates the effect of being inside another car.

Here in this picture you can see the distance the road is from the shop, this would be about 4 meters and as you can see it is a relatively busy road.