It’s true. Good audio makes a difference.

I took a quick video (less than 20 sec­onds) of these awe­some look­ing moon jel­ly­fish (Aure­lia Aurita) when I was at the Kuwait Sci­en­tific Cen­ter Aquar­ium yes­ter­day.  I put a still image that I also took on my Face­book wall and a few folks liked it (you can see it here on Instagr.am).  Since I got some likes, I thought I would also add the video I took as well.

For those who know me, I don’t just do things for the sake of doing them. Every­thing is an exper­i­ment and I wanted to see what the dif­fer­ence was between upload­ing a video with no audio, and then adding an audio track over the top of the video as well.

How the heck did this idea even come to me? Good ques­tion. As it turns out, when I was tak­ing the video with my iPhone at the aquar­ium, a bunch of kids rolled through and made a ton of noise that I ended up record­ing.  These jel­lies are so peace­ful and awe­some, and I didn’t want to post the raw video with all the noise as it would have ruined your view­ing expe­ri­ence.  I HAD NO CHOICE but to remove the offend­ing audio.  When I did that, the idea of adding another track on top of the silent one came to me and I went with it.

The audio free ver­sion is below. Check it out and then check out the one below that.

I also know that everyone’s musi­cal tastes dif­fer and I’m sen­si­tive to that.  So I searched through my music col­lec­tion for some really great ambi­ent sounds that I felt would match the tone and vibra­tion of these beau­ti­ful crea­tures.  I hope it came out alright, and I’d love to hear your thoughts. (HINT…HINT…)

Do you like the video with no audio bet­ter? Or did you like how the music added another intan­gi­ble dimen­sion in the second?

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Mucho Maha­los, (That’s Spanish-Hawaiian, aka: Spa-Waiian for “Many Thanks”)

Shawn

P.S. If you liked the music, you can get Origen’s stuff on iTunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/era-of-aquarius/id6247961. Or if you like stick­ing it to “da man” and want to get a great deal on all of Origen’s music, you can go here: http://www.origenmusic.com/background-music.html.

If you go halfway down the page, you will see a spe­cial offer and a Pay­Pal but­ton to buy direct. Nice.

P.P.S. I am mak­ing no money by men­tion­ing Origen’s great music. I like it alot, and just want to share the goodness.