Pleasure Point
Breakwater Waves
Location:
Pleasure Point (World Famous Surfing spot within the Monterey Bay), Capitola
- Santa Cruz, California USA
This recording took three
previous attempts over a 6 year period to finally accomplish in Fall of 1991.
Located in Capitol near the apex of the huge Monterey Bay geography, Pleasure
Point is a favorite with surfers and is World famous for excellent surfing conditions,
as the name suggests. The regular wave pattern, and the 4 distinct directions
of these waves, makes for a very unique ocean wave rhythm.
Only the sounds of the
waves are heard in this early mornging (3 AM) recording (almost no street traffic
above) at the base of the sea wall, virtually no winds or coastal birds were
present. This sea wall is located near the West end of 41st Ave (Capitola,
CA) and is about 10 Meters high. The curved concrete surface wall along the
Monterey Bay coastline travels for about a 300 Meter stretch Northward from
the recording positions.
The ocean waves ambient
recording was done within 3-10 Meters distance of the incoming (crashing on
very large boulder-sized rocks) waves. I was standing at just about at sea level
and just far enough from the breaking waves to keep the ocean spray on the recording
equipment minimized.
Recorded by Leonard Lombardo,
Owner ............. Sonic Studios
Recording Equipment:
- Sonic Studios DSM-6S/M
(headworn on eyeglasses) stereo microphones
- Denon DTR-80P portable
DAT deck.... using line input.
- Sonic Studios Prototype
PA-12A DC-Servo mic preamplifier
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Just
to offer an opportunity to compare MP3 encoder performance, the
same 3 files were MP3 encoded using (3) highest quality variations in
Cool Edit Pro's Fraunhofer IIS plugin.
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2.8 Meg - 160-240kbps VBR* (w/
x10 faster HiQ codec) MP3 Pleasure Pt. Breakwater
Waves (Location South of stairs) (Loop)
1:49 MIN |
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2.6 Meg - 192kbps CBR* (w/ x10 faster HiQ codec)
MP3 Pleasure Pt. Breakwater Waves (Loop)
...................1:49 MIN |
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2.6 Meg - 192kbps CBR* (w/ Original HiQ very slow
codec) MP3 Pleasure Pt. Breakwater Waves
(Loop) ...................1:49 MIN
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Next two files represent two recording positions / times /
preamplifier gain / ocean wave sound
within the same early morning 1991 session
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8.4 Meg - 192kbps CBR* (w/ fast HiQ codec)
MP3 Pleasure Pt. Breakwater Waves (Location base of stairs)
...... 5.55 MIN |
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31 Meg -160-240kbps VBR* (w/ fast HiQ codec)
MP3 Pleasure Pt. Breakwater Waves (Location Sea level Rocks-South)
20.17 MIN |
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*Constant Bit MP3 Encoding Sample Rate (CBR) - -
- - *Variable Bit MP3 Encoding Sample Rate (VBR)
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