A short and quick test for Zoom F3 and Dodotronic Hi-Sound stereo 2 + 2 AOM 5024 Phantom Power 48Volt stereo parabolic microphone.

Zoom F3 - Dodotronic HiSound Stereo - Nightingale Song

A quick field test of Zoom H1e.
Here are blackbird calls at the evening roost, immediately followed by the calls of some gray herons nesting on a Cedrus libani and Cattle egret calls, every now and then the call of a female long-eared owl is heard, especially towards the end of the file. In the recording I left a car passing in the back.
On the background an industrial fan engine. 
Zoom H1e Essential recorder, Parabolic Microphone with 1+1 AOM 5024 capsules.
File as recorded, no processing in DAW.
Low cut filter 80 Hz on recorder.
48 KHz 32 bit. 

ZOOM H1e Essential + AOM5024 in Parabolic Microphone

Short recording of near blacbird before sun goes down. Above Kamnik city recorded with parabolic Dodotreonic Hi Stereo and Zoom F3

Blackbird song before sundusk in small town - Parabolic Stereo Dodotronic

Hot summer fields near town Kamnik - crickets and grasshoopers with Dodotronic HiSound stereo and Sennheisern MKH40 - Zoom F3 and F6



Summer fields Parabolic Dodotronic Stereo and Sennheiser MKH40 stereo - Crickets grasshoopers insects

A powerful thunderstorm unfolding beneath the alpine peaks. Captured  inside a small abandoned mountain hut.
Several extremely close lightning strikes shake the wooden structure, creating an intense and immersive soundscape.
For best experience, listen with headphones.

Microphones: Sennheiser MKH40
recorder: Zoom F3

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Alpine Thunderstorm - Intense Mountain Lightning Strikes

20.05.2025
Comeragh Mountains, Waterford Ireland.
Lunch time, relatively windy 
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On a muggy and atmospheric day in May I head the unmistakable rumble of thunder. I quickly reached for my Omni mics and I put them out in the field. Thankfully the thunder continued to rumble and provided some wonderful deep and resonating sounds.

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**Recording Setup:**

TASCAM FR-AV2
Matched Stereo Pair of Clippy EM272 from Micbooster
Rycote Windshield (from Micbooster kit)
Gain Forgotten...
* **Bit Depth / Sample Rate:** 32-bit / 44 kHz

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May Thunder Short - 2025 _A01_L

A longer take using a pair of sE Electronics sE8 in ORTF position.
Recorded with a Mixpre-3 at 55dB gain, lo-cut at 80Hz, plus Rycote BBG windshields.
Some nice wind noise in the beginning.

sE Electronics sE8 (55dB)

The 156.4-square-kilometere Żerków-Czeszewo Landscape Park was set up in 1994 and straddles Września, Jarocin and Środa Wielkopolska counties. It lies in the centre of Wielkopolska and consists of two distinct parts. Forests and meadows dominate in the northern part while the southern part is mostly rural.

Glacial action has left the park with a diversified terrain, from the flat, undulating morainal uplands north of the Warta, to the Warsaw-Berlin glacial valley in the centre, and on to the Żerków embankment further south whose highest point is Łysa Góra (161 m asl). Close to 40% is covered by forests, the most beautiful and valuable (from a natural standpoint) being the Czeszewo forests in the Warta and Lower Lutynia valleys situated in the northern part of the park. The common ash, pedunculate oak, small-leaved lime and black alder are the most important species of tree in these forests. The forest cover of the southern part of the park, by contrast, has been significantly transformed and an artificially planted pine monoculture holds sway. There are some 800 species of vascular plants are recorded here. Many of them, including ivy, woodruff and lily of the valley, are rare and protected species. The fauna is no less abundant and includes rare species of invertebrate - particularly the red-rimmed melania found in the Dębno nad Wartą (Dębno–on–Warta) wildlife reserve. About 210 species of bird nest in the park, including the lesser spotted eagle, white-tailed eagle, black stork, kingfisher, middle spotted woodpecker and a whole host of water birds. The Dwunastak and Czeszewski Las (Czeszewo Forest) reserves protect the park’s most precious forest stands. There is a scenic outlook over the village of Brzostków and the surrounding post-glacial landscape on the road from Żerków to Śmiełów.

All recordings made with Zoom H6 and Rode NTG-5

May Thunder Short - 2025 _A01_L

raph britton