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Late autumn at the Adishi glacier.

Capturing the clean and quality sound of the glacier presents its unique challenges to overcome. One is the logistics and fitness of even reaching such a place, as they are mostly in high, remote mountains. Another is reaching the suitable area of the glacier, which is huge and presents a very demanding terrain that takes you time and energy to get to. Most easy access is at the front of it, the tounge where the ice ends, yet that is where the water comes running out of under the glacier. So in order to avoid the noise of the rushing water, I needed to reach a more upper stage of it, by following it along the edge. That presents another difficulty as the edges of a mountain are "eaten" by the glacier therefor they are completely crumbling and unstable with a high chance of collapse. You can hear stones falling down continuously. When finally reaching this narrow edge, I managed to come closer to the heart of this ice monster. This is where I was able to capture the ice avalanches and rock falls from much closer and farther away from the noise of the river. You can feel the vibrations and low rumble frequencies. Standing so close to it and witnessing its process is very different from anything else; it somehow feels like something extraterrestrial, something we are never used to witnessing in our lives. Yet it is a whole complex system by itself, existing there, doing its thing, basically just water.

Adishi Glacier / Avalanche - Georgia, Caucasus 2500m

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This is a sample of some of the nature ambience recordings I captured in the back country of the Algonquin Park interior in Ontario Canada June 24-27, 2019. This Recording was captured at around 10:30 pm.
Small cracks and pops can be heard from a small campfire that was dying down from about 20 feet away.

Loons In Algonquin Sample

this Demo is made 100% with audio samples from the "PWL09 Wilderness Americas : Amazon Rainforest" Sound library. No filter or effect was applyed.

Here is the originals "referenced" files taken from the library :

00:00 -> Amazon Jungle (Madidi National Park – Bolivia) Ambiance rainforest, begin of the night, strange whistle of exotic birds, rise of insects background, cicada, cricket, frogs.
00:30 -> Amazon Jungle (Biological Station « Jatun Sasha– Ecuador) Ambiance rainforest morning, exotic birds call, Oro Pendulo (yellow bird), insects, cicada cycle, woodpecker.
01:00 -> Amazon Jungle (Biological Station « Jatun Sasha– Ecuador) Ambiance rainforest light tropical rain, water drop on leaves, exotic birds and insect (cicada, cricket) in background.
01:30 -> Amazon Jungle (Biological Station « Jatun Sasha– Ecuador) Ambiance rainforest morning, exotic birds call, Oro Pendulo/Cacique, wing flap, sound, insects, cicada cycle.
02:00 -> Amazon Jungle (Reserva de Produccion Faunistica Cuyabeno – Ecuador) Ambiance rainforest sunset end of the day, light rain, water drop on trees leaves, howler monkeys call, insects in background.
02:30 -> Amazon Jungle (Limoncocha Biological Reserve – Ecuador) Ambiance rainforest night, near a lake, many amphibiens, frogs, toad insects and big birds, some water sound from frogs and fish.
03:00 -> Amazon Jungle (Biological Station « Jatun Sasha– Ecuador) Ambiance rainforest morning, exotic birds call, Oro Pendulo/Cacique, wing flap, birds « playing » with branches/fruits in trees, sound of fruit falling from trees, insects.
03:30 -> Amazon Jungle (Madidi National Park – Bolivia) Ambiance rainforest, noon, quiet atmosphere, Mosquito flying around the microphone.
04:00 -> Amazon Jungle (Biological Station « Jatun Sasha– Ecuador) Ambiance rainforest night, exotic birds, amphibians, insects (cicada, criket).
04:30 -> Amazon Jungle (Madidi National Park – Bolivia) Ambiance rainforest, middle afternoon, strong call and passby from an exotic bird, insects background, cicada, cricket.

Wilderness Americas : Amazon Rainforest is a collection of sounds captured in the West part of the Amazon basin (El Oriente) across 3 country of south america : Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia.

This library focus on the wildlife and wilderness sounds of the Amazon rainforest/jungle. Reaching the Amazon region is not easy and need many resources and time. 
Also the weather conditions are very bad for the people and audio equipment : extrem humidity, rain and heat don't works great with microphones and recorders. 
We have selected audio gear for this purpose : tropicalized microphones : sennheiser MKH 8020 and MKH 30 series in a surround configuration + world known recoreder : Sound devices Mixpre10T. We have taken also a humidity proof microphone basket (Cinela)
This weather proof setup permit us to record even under strong tropical rains. (We have also a special mic cover which reduce the sound of rain drop on the microphone basket)

We have always focus on places, where they protect and respect the "Selva" (Forest), especially place like National Park, Research Station or community places. 
-> We went record in this different place : Madidi National Park (BOLIVIA), Podocarpus National PArk (Ecuador), biological station of "Jatun Sasha" (Ecuador), 
the forest around the Rio Napo (a affluent connect to the amazon river) (Ecuador), the "Reserva de Produccion Faunistica Cuyabeno" (Ecuador) and the region around Mocoa, between Santa Rosa Canyon and the Paway Reserva (Colombia).


We have used "sound trap" technics for long and immersive recording : 
we have hide microphones and protect recorder in a waterproof bag and let it for days and night in the middle of the rainforest (usualy 24 hours non stop recording). 
This system allow us to record the sunrise, dawn chorus, and sunset, time where the animals are more active.

PWL09 : Wilderness Americas : Amazon Rainforest - Demo

This underwater recording highlights the hive of activity in the coral reef just off the beach in Amarynthos, Euboea, Greece. The recording was made mid afternoon, with the hydrophones placed on the reef bed at a shallow depth of around 1.5 metres. The reef is in good health with a beautiful ecosystem of coral and sea life. Amongst the sound we hear the sound of Pistol Shrimps that use their claws to shoot a bubble bullet to stun their prey. There are also reef cleaner fish as well as the sounds of the coral itself. 

Thanks to Jez Riley French for help identifying some of the species.

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x JRF D-Series Hydrophones
Recorded 18.07.2019

Coral Reef - South Euboean Gulf, Greece

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Here's another recording from Kubah National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia. The only editing to this is a slight adjustment to equalisation.

Download the full 15 minute version https://wildambience.com/albums/dusk-by-the-frog-pond

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