Michael F. Bates

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During this time, I got a call from my daughter saying, “Dad, the TV’s broken. I can’t hear any sound. It sounds all weird. Can you come and fix it?” (Of course, if you’re a sound person, you get asked to fix anything that makes a noise.) So I got home and somehow the digital cable from the TV to the soundbar was making this extraordinary, modulated buzzing sound, which made no sense at all, but it did change slightly with the sound that was feeding it. So I thought, “Oh, this is great. I couldn’t make this if I wanted to; I wouldn’t know where to start.” So I got my phone out, put a mic on it, and started recording this sound. I thought, “I know what I’ll do just to be safe. I’ll play Rogue Nation through it. So at least I know it’s consistent with the Mission Impossible movies.”
Closeup picture of a Zoom H1 essential portable recorder being held in one hand.
A sleeping British Shorthair cat with microphone pointed at it
Small black bag containing sound recording gear sitting on a cafe table, with a view of the Tate Britain rotunda and dome.