Great recording. Love the moss technique to reduce raindrop sounds!

Beautiful recording and great technique. Not hearing any nasty thunks there at all. I can hear the contact with the moss I think, but it sounds lovely and natural.

I have a DIY cover based on the Cinela Kelly rain cover. A stretchy fabric cover coated with Nikwax goes over the windshield to provide water protection, then an open cell foam cover over the top to break up the raindrops. 

superb capure, and well done on the improviso deadcat extenction

If there are hot days in the summer in Spain, I would say that thunderstorm through big speakers to the whole street :)

Full Story + Video: https://acousticnature.com/journal/recording-nature-sounds-in-the-okefenokee-swamp

This field recording is of a powerful thunderstorm slowly approaching a small pine forest on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. To deaden the sound of raindrops on the SASS microphone, I put spanish moss on top of the enclosure. This worked really well!

Thunderstorm from Pine Forest POV (3:17pm) - LS10 w/SASS

Bonus track from "_modulus" on Handstitched* [HS38]

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/modulus

Maps and Diagrams - Seam

Trumpeter Swans on Lake Ontario, Leslie Spit, Toronto, November

Trumpeter Swans

On Saturday, 12 November 2022, South Australia, including the whole Adelaide region, experienced an uncharacteristic extended storm of unusual intensity. Several storm fronts, arriving from the NW over St Vincent's Gulf, hit Adelaide and the Fleurieu Peninsula. The storm has been described as "one of the strongest thunderstorms in recent memory",* causing flash flooding, wind gusts exceeding 100 km/h that tore down huge gum trees (many of which crushed houses, cars, and electricity lines), as well as flattening giant electricity pylons, leaving around a hundred thousand people without power. 

This recording, made in the Adelaide Hills (near Norton Summit), captures a sample of the first and mildest storm wavefront that day. (The recording begins at 10:30 in the morning. This abridged version selects two excerpts from the longer recording, chosen because of the poignant presence of bird calls audible between the peals of thunder. The highlighted parts of the spectrogram in the track image indicate the passages from the longer recording that were selected for this abridged version.) The microphones sheltered from the fairly light rain underneath a 'sweet pittosporum' or 'native daphne' tree (Pittosporum undulatum), native to southeastern Australia, but a 'declared plant' in South Australia ('a woody weed invading native local vegetation', due to widespread ornamental planting).

Travelling farther south immediately after this recording, I was able to intercept the next two storm wavefronts, which were far more intense. Although the storm was utterly awesome and spectacular (lightning bolts plunging into fields, exploding thunder tearing the atmosphere apart), it was impossible to find any spot from which to record the storm, because it brought with it an abundant lashing downpour of rain and wild tree-tossing winds. All the shelters in the state forests had iron rooves: the rain battering the rooves was deafening, drowning out even the peals of thunder.

In the end, I could only just sit and experience it. Which, after all, is the very best thing to do, with Nature. (Most of the time, at least. Not recommended when it gets this violent. Although I have to say that this was truly a very beautiful and awe-inspiring experience; and, personally, I'm very glad to have been out there to witness it. I'm also contemplating possible recording solutions, in case this ever happens again... Enraptured by thunderstorms as a spatial music of nature. All that I have said, here, is the simple truth.)
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*https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/why-the-adelaide-storm-was-so-intense/925471
https://www.sapowernetworks.com.au/data/313806/12-november-storm-update-from-sa-power-networks/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/18/australias-indigenous-people-call-for-seat-at-table-at-cop27
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Recorded with respect upon the land of the Kaurna people.

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2022.11.12 Storm above the Hills. Late Spring. (Excerpt)

A series of recordings made on the occasion of the 2015 Soundcamp for the 24 hour Reveil global dawn chorus braodcast. Our Soundcamp was coordinated by Dawn Scarfe and Veljo Runnel and included guests from the Active Crossover residency. Special thanks to the Palupõhja Nature School for hosting us. Palupõhja is a small village on the Emajõgi river in the center of the Alam-Pedja nature reserve.
http://www.soundtent.org/2015/streams/streams_2015_UTC+2_estonia.html
http://moks.ee/artists/active-crossover-mooste
http://www.palupohja.ee/en

Blackbird and dawn chorus, Palupõhja May03, 2015

Warmth's new album ambient 'Home' is the first vinyl release on Archives. Comes in a Double Vinyl with pictures by Alexander Kopatz. Also on Double CD with each one of the original pieces revisited by talented artists, including: Hotel Neon, SineRider, Leandro Fresco, Purl, SVLBRD, Chris Weeks, Tone Color and Robert Farrugia.

Written and produced by Agustín Mena.
Remixes by Hotel Neon, SineRider, Leandro Fresco, Purl, SVLBRD, Chris Weeks, Tone Color and Robert Farrugia.
Mastering by Rob Small.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
ARCHIVESCD21 | 2017

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Warmth - Afterwards (Robert Farrugia Remix)

Olan Mill also returns to Shimmering Moods Records, just straight after his live appearance on Le Guess Who? Festival 2018 on November 11th, with a very special and personal project of him, a thing of pure beauty, floating sounds and relaxation....."Sounds of a New Father"

"Week 6" is taken from Sounds of a New Father, which will be released on Friday the 16th of November.

Music written and mastered by Alex Smalley
Original paintings by Alma Kemya Smalley

Release notes by Andrew, Cameron & Bambi Sherwell

Format: Cassette/CD/Digital:
50 limited edition C43 cream cassettes supplied in printed o-cards, pro dubbed by Bandcds UK + 70 limited edition handmade CD packages, photo's, hand numbered CDr, wallets in enveloppes. Different colors and sizes.

This release will be first available at Le Guess Who? Festival 2018 from 12:00-18:00, Sunday November 11
Limited edition packages will be available on the Shimmering Moods Band Camp page on Monday 12th of November:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com
www.leguesswho.nl

Soon

Olan Mill - Week 6

~ blip Vol.6 ~

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https://innesti.bandcamp.com ... https://jacobnewman.bandcamp.com
Harmonic oscillations, floating voices, textured melodic environments...
Releases April 26, 2020
Written, Recorded and Mixed by Innesti + Jacob Newman.
Mastered by Jacob Newman.  
Photograph © 美撒郭. Used with permission. Design and layout by Innesti.

Innesti + Jacob Newman - Spoke Of Several (Preview Snippets)

This is a series of sketch-like works that arose out of the need for me to create an atmosphere when working in the studio. A loop would be made then I'd start the prep work for that session. The loop may even inspire the output and work created for that day.

The release is pay what you like and I'd appreciate if you took a moment to go over to Dewtone and check this out.

Many thanks and I really hope you enjoy this small and beautiful release with artwork from photographer Courtney Smith and mastering by Pheek over at audioservices.studio.

Hope you enjoy it.

'Untitled Quiet Loop #1' - Quiet Loops - [Dewtone Recordings, 2020]

Full Story + Photos: https://acousticnature.com/journal/field-recording-trip-vermont-ice-storm 

I recorded this soundscape at my friend's cabin in Vermont near the Green Mountain National Forest. The forest was covered in a thick layer of ice from a recent freezing rain storm. 

While I was chopping wood, I noticed the sound of ice crystals falling to the forest floor and shattering. The sound was constant and gusts of wind caused larger crystals to fall. 

As soon as I became aware of this subtle sound, I knew I had to record it. Because I didn't know how much battery life I would get in the frigid temps (15°F), I waited until 11pm to setup my recording gear. I did this to maximize my chance at a noise-pollution-free recording hoping that most people would be asleep.

To setup the recording I wanted to bungee cord my binaural microphone to a tree, but it was too difficult and too cold to have the patience necessary to get it right. Instead, I simply put the microphone on top of a snow bank facing the forest and the D100 in a dry bag next to it.

I was shocked to find the D100 still recording when I returned at 7:26am.

In total, I recorded for 8hr 22min and ended up with 23min of usable audio (≈4.6%). In post-production, I added a lo-cut filter at 180Hz, 12dB/octave to remove some low-frequency wind rumbling, and increased the loudness slightly to -30LKFS. 

Recorder: D100
Mics: DIY Binaural Housing
Sensitivity: 4
Lo-cut: OFF
Time: 11:04pm
Wind Protection: 2 Winter Hats

To learn more about me, my gear, or field recording in general, please visit my website at www.acousticnature.com

Thank you for reading and listening. ♫
-Jared

Shattering Ice Forest | Freezing Rain Aftermath in Vermont

All albums available for "Name Your Price" on BandCamp (personal listening use only). Please contact me to license my recordings.

Thunderstorm from Pine Forest POV (3:17pm) - LS10 w/SASS

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