DIY SASS ( 4 AOM-5024L-HD-R)
 DIY Dead Cat
 Tascam dr-05x
A thunderstorm rolled in as I got home so I quickly put a bag over my SASS as well as my custom dead cat. Recorder also in a plastic bag inside of a neoprene bag. I didn't have time to mess with levels in fear I'd miss the thunder. I'll be paying closer attention to weather patterns this summer.

Quick Storm Test With SASS

Active volcano recorded from the top, at the edge of the crater, during the night. 

Recorded by a DoubleMS Setup by Schoeps, CCM41+CCM8+CCM4 (in a Cinela Windscreen),
an AB Setup by DPA Microphones, 2 x 4006,
and a Geofon by LOM Audio.
On a Sound Devices 833 recorder.
Original recording in 192kHz, 24bit.
This sound has been edited and mixes the different sources.

GPS: -19.530189, 169.445493
Recorded on 6th of November 2022, between 6:30pm and 8:30pm.

Tanna Island

Volcano Mount Yasur, Tanna Island

A summer breezy afternoon in a meadow, accompanied by the gentle sounds of crickets and grasshoppers. A nature soundscape recording from the pristine wilderness  forest below Mount Snežnik, Slovenia


A summer breezy afternoon in a meadow- gentle sounds grasshoppers wind Snežnik, Slovenia

Hot summer fields near town Kamnik - crickets and grasshoopers with Dodotronic HiSound stereo and Sennheisern MKH40 - Zoom F3 and F6



Summer fields Parabolic Dodotronic Stereo and Sennheiser MKH40 stereo - Crickets grasshoopers insects

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One Square Inch of Silence

One Square Inch of Silence preview

I compared a stereo pair of MKH 8020s mounted in a DIY foam SASS, with a pair of Audio Technica AT 4022s mounted in a Crown SASS.  These are consecutive recordings (rather than simultaneous), it was early dawn on Xmas morning, rigs were set up on my front verandah.  By ear I cannot pick the difference between the two rigs, but a sound spectrograph shows that the 8020s are a little noisier.  Both rigs alternately ran to a Sound Devices 702 recorder, I added 3 db to the 4022s in post, to match the levels.

SASS RIGS COMPARED: MKH 8020s v AT 4022s

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Two hours from inside a lonely barn out on Preiviiki Fields during a stormy night. Just pick your headphones and relax!

A little about the title:  Its status as a catchphrase for bad writing comes from the opening sentence of English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford [3] 

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/190913/

(MKH8020 ab60cm, MixPre3, no processing, 24/48, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

A Dark and Stormy Night - 13/9/2019 - Preiviiki Fields

Signs Of Solitude

Field Recordings, Sound Design and Ambient music

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