Haunting Red Deer rutting in the forest of Orléans

Field recording of St Clair beach, Dunedin. Recorded on a Zoom F6 and an Audio Technica BP4025. © Steve Ting 2023

St Clair Beach, 26th December 2022

In the forest after the rain - drops falling from trees - birds, insects, human noises...
Recorded with a pair of (very underrated and low noise)Audio Technica AE5100 mics on a MixPre-6 recorder, 48kHz / 24bits

Riederewald 2023-05-15

What you hear in this track are the very high pitched and ultrasonic parts of the crickets songs slowed down and brought into the audible spectrum. Originally these frequencies were mostly between 20 and 40 kHz, well beyond our normal hearing range. 
The result sounds quite unusual, a bit creepy and extraterrestrial but also very cool. It doesn't sound like crickets anymore, more like dinosaurs, I imagine... or a gang of drunk roosters... LOL

Ultrasonic cricket sounds  pitched down, 23-07-14-005

Frogs in the first weeks of activity of the year. It was the warmest night so far, unusually high and although I went to the lake's edge, they were so loud that they could be heard from a long distance. This is also a place to see and hear herons and sometime storks, but this night it was all for the frogs.
I was testing out a Zoom F3 for the second time.

Frogs in the Countryside

One a series of recordings I made recently at the Boyana Lake in Vitosha National Park in Bulgaria. What's interesting about this recording is that it was done at dusk and along with the last bird calls for the day halfway through the recording you can hear a bat approaching the microphones and echolocating them. Of course while I was recording I just saw the bat flying around the microphones but did not hear it because the sounds that it makes are far above the normal human hearing range and even its wings are super quiet. Then in post production I selectively pitched down these sounds in order to make them audible for us.

Frogs and bats at Boyana Lake 24-04-12- 013

The hypnotic drone of bumblebees “drinking” under an ancient beech tree, near Arney bridge in County Fermanagh. A good friend and neighbour mentioned they heard a huge hum on their dog walk down this lane. By the time the recordings were made (around two weeks later) the drone had considerably faded, so you can imagine the numbers of bees and the size of this beautiful tree.

Initially, we were unclear as to why the bees were attracted to this particular tree. Research suggests that bees are attracted to honeydew*, which is the sugary substance secreted by aphids when feeding on tree sap.

This track is a composite of the field recordings and processing to extract and subsequently adding the fundamental frequency of the droning.

Species: Bombus genus
Date and time of recording: 11 July 2021, 10am
Location: Derreen East townland, County Fermanagh, Ireland
Habitat: Farmed grassland
Gear: Sony PCM D50, Sennheiser 8040 in parabolic dish, iZotope RX5 (software), paulstretch (software)

* www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/….1086/692437
More info in this blog post: nurturing-nature.co.uk/wildlife-gard…course-video/

Summer Drone

Light rain softly falling  on a crackling campfire.
Jerusalem Mountains
-23.02.23
-Olympus LS-10 with Clippy EM272 Stereo mic.

Photo: Daniel Ein-Mor

Light rain falling on a campfire

A stereo recording of a pretty large colony of Red-Bill Gulls next to the Otago Yacht Club. The microphone used was AT BP4025 and the recorder was a Zoom F6. The audio file was then edited and tweaked in Apple Logic

Red-Billed Gulls around the Otago Yacht Club

During a recording trip to the Chatham Islands, I came across this hive near one of my recording sites. I carefully positioned my AT BP4025 stereo microphone as close as I felt safe to the hive. I recorded the sound with my Zoom F6 and edited it in Apple Logic. For an immersive experience that feels like bees buzzing around your head, be sure to listen with headphones!

Bees entering and exiting a hive

Recorded July 12, 2012 in a birch & pine forest on the slopes of Val Veddasca (Italy, Varese, Lombardia) at about 1100m altitude, about 6pm, on an overcast, gray windy day.   AT4025 mic into Olympus LS-100 recorder, mic input 'hi', gain 7.   Post: HPF at about 300 Hz and an overall 6 db increase in volume.   

Although the Blackcap is a very common bird in this area, this may be of interest for those contemplating the AT BP4025 mic.  It's OK for a quick draw, easy setup mic for use on the run while hiking.   This forest was full of individual singing birds that would go on and on and on...  too bad I didn't have the parabolic mic with me (it's not that easy to travel with a parabolic dish).   This is not my usual recording area, so I am not 100% sure of the bird ID.  In the background there are distant church bells and assorted other noises.

Riederewald 2023-05-15

Oliver

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