{"id":971,"date":"2011-06-22T22:55:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T03:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=971"},"modified":"2011-06-22T23:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T04:00:56","slug":"a-train-passes-in-the-rain-medford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/971","title":{"rendered":"a train passes in the rain: medford."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I used my neato <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Binaural_recording\">binaural microphones<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=336\">2006<\/a>, and that makes me feel guilty.  Every so often I find them in a drawer and think, &#8220;I should really use these sometime.&#8221;  During the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/larger_view\/?g_date=2011_06_02\">huge thunderstorm<\/a> I tried to use them, but by the time I figured out how to record audio on linux (yeah, I know) the storm was basically over.  Tonight it&#8217;s raining again and my recording system works.  And since we live next to the train, I made sure to check the schedule first to make sure a train would pass while I was recording.  Now you, too, can pretend you live in Medford next to the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>This recording should be listened to with headphones.  That way you&#8217;ll get the full 3D-sound effect.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"290\" height=\"24\" id=\"audioplayer_player\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"\/sounds\/smallplayer.swf\" name=\"audioplayer_player\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"soundFile=\/sounds\/1108 Train Passing.mp3\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><small>(ps, I don&#8217;t know who makes this little audio playback applet, but it&#8217;s great.  I stole it from another web page, but if anyone knows whose this is, let me know.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I used my neato binaural microphones was 2006, and that makes me feel guilty. Every so often I find them in a drawer and think, &#8220;I should really use these sometime.&#8221; During the last huge thunderstorm I tried to use them, but by the time I figured out how to record audio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a train passes in the rain: medford.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}