Sound Recording Journal I: ASA Chili Sale

It's a good observation that the activity you're focused on can take up all attention so that nothing else really matters around you, but for the recording everything is recorded equally. When you're not engrossed in an activity, like while listening to the recording later, its easier to recognize all of the subtleties of sound around you.

I feel like yours is the only recording that seems to accurately reflect what you actually experienced! This, to me, is rather surprising, especially since you recorded in the UC, which, as you said, can be a noisy place. Why do you think your recording was so true to life while others weren't?