Name: DPA4560 + Neumann KU 81 by Listening to Nature
Duration: 1 min 58 s
Description: I was given a Neumann KU 81 by a friend, which is a dummy head without a microphone. So I tried recording for the first time in Singapore with my DPA 4560 inserted into its ears.

Spring arrives in our neighborhood 25/2/2022.

www.rupuranta.net

(MKH8020 ab80cm, 24/48, no processing, no mix, flac)

Deus ex machina - 25/2/2022 - Makholma Woods

Summer night on Hällsjön at around 1:00am. Eurasian Bittern, Common Snipe, Eurasian Woodcock, Sedge Warbler and many more species were actively calling 
through the (short!) night.

Hällsjön Wetland Night Soundscape - Sweden

While visiting Hawaii in March of 2022 I enjoyed unique patches of the bamboo forest on Maui. The sound of the environment completely changed as soon as I entered the thick forest. In the dense bamboo a compelling percussive sound starts in the distance and ebbed toward me as the wind swayed the tall skinny shoots. Clicking and clacking together it felt as if this spontaneous rhythm passed through me.

Hawaii - Wind In The Bamboo Forest - 25 minutes of Nature

I was given a Neumann KU 81 by a friend, which is a dummy head without a microphone. So I tried recording for the first time in Singapore with my DPA 4560 inserted into its ears.

DPA4560 + Neumann KU 81

5th June 2016: Sea waves recorded on the black volcanic beach spit at the mouth of the Ölfusá river near Eyrarbakki, Iceland. 

This is part of a mid-side comparison test and was recorded with a Sennheiser MKH30 and a Sennheiser MKH60.

For another recording with the MKH8040 cardioid microphone in the mid position, same perspective, follow this link:

soundcloud.com/iainhetherington/waves-at-eyrarbakki-iceland-decoded-midside-with-mkh8040-mid

Waves at Eyrarbakki Iceland - Decoded MidSide with MKH60 Mid

I know many people will record the sound of waves and I admit it is really hard to get a true representation of what you actually hear. I tried using a holophone surround sound system and I feel if you listen to it on a surround system it sounds pretty close to what I was hearing. 
Either way it was a beautiful beach with no one but myself on it. Oh ya the leather back turtles were amazing to watch as they crawled up on the beach to lay their eggs. There must have been thousands of them and it went on for days.

Ocean Waves

Beaver Lake  2012-04-22  07:30
Soundscape from a hilltop campsite above the beaver dammed outlet of the lake,  recorded just outside the foot of my tent while I remained quietly still inside.

Animal Species: American robin, Pacific wren, varied thrush, common raven.
Anthronoise: Periodic bursts of distant highway traffic.
Geophysical: Water in nearby cascading stream, soft wind gust though trees.

Weather: Wind calm. 34 degrees Fahrenheit.  

Mic /Array:  Shure MX391 boundary microphones (x2),  mounted parallel, forward facing, spaced 8.5 inches, mounted on a foam ball baffle for quasi-binaural stereo.  Height above ground ~ 30 inches. 

Recorder: Sony PCM-M10

Download as mp3 192.

For personal review only - all rights reserved.

Pacific Wren and Varied thrush near Beaver Lake.

This recording was awarded the Silver Fox 2018. The Silver Fox is the overall winner of the annual competition of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society. This is the long version of the recording - the competition entries are allowed to be max. two minutes long.
Recorded 2017 at the Amazon Refuge Lodge in Loreto, Peru. 2 x AT4022 omnis in an Olson Wing array.

WSRS Silver Fox Award 2018 - Afternoon by the Lodge

Gibbons calling early in the morning in the Borneo rainforest. Downloadable recording made with Sound Devices Mixpre 6 ii and Sennheiser MKH8040/MKH30 DMS rig. Decoded from DMS to Stereo. All rights reserved. Full Mixpre review available at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/sound-devices-mixpre-ii-review

Sound Devices Mixpre 6 II Demo - Borneo morning gibbons

Sound of a pocket watch from 1884, recorded with 2 LOM's Uši Pro and 1 Aquarian Audio H2a as a contact mic.

Taschenuhr von 1884

This is recorded over a three day period using multiple microphones I built. The latest was a pair of TSC-1 Capsules with Dual OPA impedance couplers. Then we get to a pair of figure 8's spaced 12 inches apart facing same direction. We close with the same TSC-1 Capsule mics in ORTF with outboard TSB2555B mic's about 10 feet to left and right

BrokenBow OK September 2020

Yii Kah Hoe, Composer/improviser
https://www.youtube.com/c/ListeningtoNature

DPA4560 + Neumann KU 81

Listening to Nature

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