Binaural Recording of Backyard Birds, Wind Chimes, and Airplanes

Binaural Backyard Field Recording, Optimized for HD280Pro

Binaural Recording of Domestic Activities (washing dishes, etc) Optimized for HD280Pro

Binaural Recording, Dishwashing, HD280Pro

A song built on the USAF A-10 gear warning tone

A-10 Song

This is a binaural dummy-head recording of the forest near my home.  It is unique in that the microphone capsules, extracted from cheap ($15) Sony in-ear microphones, were epoxy potted at the bottoms of three inch tubes (soda straws) within steel "pucks" (constructed from large steel nuts with washer end-caps)that were, in turn, mounted within a Styrofoam head purchased at Hobby Lobby equipped with silicone ears purchased from 3Dio.  To completely eliminate the "tubular" sound artifact, a stereo Finite Impulse Response filter was developed for closed-loop correction for playback with the Bose QC-2 headphones.

If you listen carefully, you'll hear a coyote party in the distance.

Piñon Forest Ambience for Bose QC-2 Headphones

Field recording in my backyard.  Highway noise, finches, wind chimes, power tool, dogs.  Zoom H6, Hobby Lobby styrafoam binaural head (3Dio ears) into XLR inputs.  Processed through closed-loop Finite-Impulse-Response filter developed between binaural head and Sennheiser HD280Pro headphones.  Boring, but more exciting stuff to follow...

DW Carter