A woodpecker chick calls and parent replies while the like rooks shout and brawl etc.

Woodpeckers And Woodland Sounds Wales.

waters moving amongst stones on seashore in Santa Ponca (Majorca). for the "stronger" effect I have normalized this recording.

sea stones

Audio-Technica AT8022 -> Shure FP24 (mic level 7/11) -> Sony PCM M10 (LOW SENS 3/10). W/o post-processing.
Village, crows, roosters, hammer, jackdaws (19.09.2015)

Morning in the Monino village / Test record / Shure FP24

On a warm September evening Ravens gather to drink at pools below Corsican pines.

At the pools of Bryn-llwyd

This clip presents two simultaneously captured field recordings, made on two different microphone arrays, set up side by side, to compare their ability to render a natural soundscape. 

The first example was recorded on a SASS unit modified to mount a pair of Sennheiser MKH20 omni microphones.

The second was made by an Iso-binaural array - a pair of independently baffled omnis facing 180º on a T-bar. It does not have the front/back discrimination that limits binaural in real world nature soundscape situations, where sound comes from all around. This rig is directionally neutral, yet renders lovely wide stereo. 

Microphones in this rig were Audio Technica 3032s, and description of the rig can be found here:
https://www.listeningearth.com/blog/iso-binaural-soundscape-microphone-array

Both recordings were made on Sound Devices 7 series recorders. The recording is of birdsong from east Gippsland, Australia. Distant vehicles and wave wash provide some spacial context. The recordings have been balanced for ambient volume, but otherwise unprocessed. The raw wav file may be downloaded for critical listening. 

My assessment of this trial is that the SASS creates a subjectively wider stereo image, probably due to its 'wings', however the Iso-binaural array is more balanced without any muffled sound sources as it has no rear 'shadow'. Considering the irregularities of sound in natural environments, the differences discernible are relatively slight, and far less than other stereo mic arrays I am familiar with. Both these rigs do a very fine job. The Iso-binaural is light, compact, versatile, simple to make, inexpensive, and may be a worthy option for any field recordist wishing to explore soundscapes.

There is another example of this mic array here:
https://soundcloud.com/listeningearth/iso-binaural-stereo-microphone-array-demonstration

Comparison of field microphone arrays: SASS vs Iso-binaural

Sounds of nature I recorded on my Zoom H4 and combined with music I created in Garageband.

Haunted Forest with Zoom H4N Recorder by Marlene DeGrood

Pado lake is on the eastern side of the Meelva bog in Southeast Estonia.

We arrived quite "late" to catch the chorus yet the mix of bird and frog species in this recording is quite pleasant.

Any identification of the species is helpful.

Tech: 2x AT4021 cardioids ORTF - SD MixPre - Edirol R-09, with some slight EQ and level adjustments in post

Padojärv 5:45am dawn chorus, April 22nd

Unlike the daytime song, the phrases are generally short, with longer periods of silence between one phrase and another. In general, the song is less frenetic and the notes are well-articulated.
The singer was recorded at the end of May 2010, near the Palude del Busatello, a marshland located at Gazzo Veronese, Verona, Italy, at approximately 3 AM.
These the coordinates 45.114178, 11.089153.

Nightingale - nocturnal song - Rode NT1a stereo matched pair ORTF spaced- Fostex FR2 Le

Recorded in our garden using Jez Riley French's contact microphones. The bamboo is a Semiarundinaria murielae, according to our gardener. This is what it sounds like inside


bamboo moving in the wind

Preview of Rabbit Ears Audio SFX library: http://rabbitearsaudio.com/rea012-winter-atmospheres/

REA 012 Winter Atmospheres Preview

Collection of recordings on January 10th 2011 during the Georgia winter storm. Various sleds, ice breaking, ice creaking, icy tension cracks, and heavy snow crunches/impacts. All sounds recorded at 24-bit 96khz with the Neumann RSM 191 A-S M-S Stereo Shotgun Microphone System and Sound Devices 702 Digital Recorder. Two Aquarian audio H2a-XLR hydrophones used for the frozen water drainage pipe recording. 


Morning in the Monino village / Test record / Shure FP24

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