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An audio recording of Denmark Street's ambience
So, I'm guessing you were probably listening to the background sound on an episode of the Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast and thought "hmm, that sounds like a real city street, but is it?". Well, yes, it is. 

What you're hearing is the actual sound of the real location itself, recorded by myself using a small condenser mic' and a smartphone (thank God for technology), as each street has a very specific sound and I feel it gives you as the listener a real sense of its history, space, architecture and the people who live/work there, as well as some interesting little audio-nuggets which aid the story, such as people talking, traffic noise, sirens, construction work, weather and even those odd little moments of silence which seem odd - but do happen - in a bustling city. In places I have mixed various tracks together, but only because it's it's impossible to give a true sense of a street in one take. 


For example, if you click on the grey audio player, you will be able to hear a small sample of the original recording I made of Denmark Street, including "someone" attempting to play the guitar. 
Unfortunately, as all of these murders happened in the past, I'm unable to use authentic sounds from the incident itself, and I won't cheat you by pretending the recreate the moment, but what I aim to do is to give you a flavour of the location (to aid your experience of this audio guided walk) and tell as honest-a-story as possible, using sound. 

As for the narration, I record this in the privacy of my little studio, where it's nice and quiet. Originally I tried recording it live from the street itself, but as a self-conscious, slightly shy dylsexic who is easily distracted, I quickly decided it was safer to record the audio in private. One day I'll release my out-takes as a one-off episode and you'll hear why I need privacy - I swear at myself for fluffing a line every six seconds. 
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Occasionally, there are some specialist sounds which I'm unable to re-create accurately, so I use a fabulous website called Freesound, onto which keen eared sound-designers upload their own sound effects for use under the Creative Commons agreement, and (in accordance with this) I have listed every sound used on the transcript page for each episode in my blog. 
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