So this is the sea wall for Port Botany in Sydney.
Kind of like the secondary harbour.
Sydney harbour is north of here, but is this one is the, kind of the shipping harbour,
cargo harbour if you like.
And clearly today the fishing harbour.
Because you could just about walk across, there's so many boats.
Anyway, that's not what we're here for.
Came for a little ride today, to let you know that I think I've solved my wind noise problems.
I was really really annoyed.
I went for a couple of awesome rides, took the camera, spoke a whole lot of rubbish,
as you do, on a trip across Yengo National Park.
Which was an awesome little track that I've done a few times on a 450 dirt bike.
I thought "let's take the 1290 across there, it shouldn't be a problem".
Had a fantastic time, got back home, pulled all the footage off the camera, only to discover
I can't use any of the audio because it's all wind noise.
Which is so disappointing.
So here's how it works.
Basically, you find yourself some foam from either something that's, some packing foam
someone's sent you or,
I just cannibalised a little piece of foam out of the corner of one of those plastic
suitcases that you put your camera gear inside of.
I sacrificed a little cube from the corner of that, that I knew wouldn't be missed.
Cut a little hole in one side of it.
And slipped it down over the Sony stereo microphone that I have.
I grabbed a dead cat that I had on an old Rode video mic shotgun mic and I sliced a
little strip off of that,
wrapped it around the foam that was already around the microphone,
popped a couple of cable ties around it to keep it in place
and then I gave the dead cat a little bit of a trim because it was a super super fluffy
one and if I put it inside my helmet I probably wouldn't be able see out the visor, there's
just so much fluff coming off it,
so I gave it a little haircut and I've just popped it in the side,
just in the right side of my helmet so that it, the microphone sticks out from behind
the cheek pad
but all the cabling is safely tucked away behind the cheek pad
and yeah, did all that last night and I couldn't wait to find out if it actually worked
so I went for a bit of a ride and I'll let you see how it went.
80 k's an hour.
I can certainly hear the wind in my helmet, but that's probably just the wind on the outside.
There'll be a fair bit of roar from the tunnel.
There's kind of a cool sound inside this tunnel.
It sounds a lot like a crowd at a big sports stadium all cheering at once.
It's kind of cool.
So there you go.
I'm pretty impressed.
It's pretty quiet, even at speed.
Even with a lot of wind noise.
Even, when you open the visor, it seems to be acceptable.
So I think we've probably solved it now, which is awesome.
Pretty pleased about that.
So there you go.
Much reduced wind noise.
So if you compare it to this clip that I took when I was doing the Yengo National Park video...
[wind noise, barely audible voice]
... you compare that to this clip that I shot last night...
"So previously this audio with it this kind of breezy in the helmet would have been completely
unusable"
... and even the stuff I'm doing right now, you'll see that it was a massive improvement
in sound quality and reduction in wind noise.
Absolutely massive.