M10 SpokenWord InternMic Gain3.WAV

Please pardon the traffic noise in the background; this is as quiet as it gets in the back yard of our tract home.

About this time of year, the male Mockingbirds arrive and have a penchant for singing right through the night as they establish territories.  By the time nesting starts, they are a lot quieter.

This bird was so obnoxiously loud, at 1:30 a.m. that I just had to record him.  Sony PCM-M10, internal mics, through an open window into the back yard.  Note the bullfrog imitations at the very end.

Mad Midnight Mocker

An ambient test recording of a Norfolk village street, with an MS rig comprising a Sennheiser MKH 8040 cardioid mid mic and a Sennheiser MKH 8030 fig 8 side mic.

Village Ambience - MKH8040 And MKH8030 MS

This version of the traditional bluegrass song 'Sugar Honey Baby' (aka 'Red Rocking Chair' and various other titles) has been recorded by the Time and Mercy Band placed around a single pair of mics (a mid-side pair comprising a cardioid mid mic and a fig 8 side mic).  It forms part of a series of tests with pre-production versions of the Sennheiser MKH 8030 and the Rycote BD-10 fig 8 mics. In this recording the MKH 8030 was used in combination with its sibling cardioid mic (MKH 8040) as a mid-side pair, to produce the stereo track. There has been no processing of the sound: no reverb, compression etc.

Guitar and vocal - Richard Ward
Banjo and backing vocal - Rob John
Fiddle and backing vocal - Jason French
Bass - Kevin Burton

Sound recording by Roland B Harris

Many thanks to Kevin Burton for use of the Forge Studio, and all his assistance with monitoring the sound; and to Sennheiser for the pre-production MKH 8030.

'Sugar Honey Baby' - MKH8040 and MKH8030

ORTF recording, set of Sennheiser 8040's. Nowe Kramsko in Poland.
Recorded as 48khz, 32 bit float, no processing.
EBU T128 Loudness normalization.

MKH 8040 pair Village life with tractor passing by, train in the background, skylarks.

Fish eating in aquarium

Barn, Exmoor  Rycote OM - 08, AB 50cm

Stereo Parabolic Microphone in Jecklin Disk

Red Deer roars from deep in the forest.

Recorded using a SASS - made by Marco pesente and zoom F3.

Wolf Chorus

Lesung März 2017

Ausschnitt Lesung - März - 2017 Sony PCM-M10 Rode NT4

Marienplatz Street Musicians

I am a London based sound recordist, voiceover actor and dialogue mixer.

MKH 8040 pair Village life with tractor passing by, train in the background, skylarks.

Karol Walkowski

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