Walking stairs with shoes: various speed of walking with heel shoes up and down some wood staris. Recorder: zoom h4n with the internal mic on 48khz with 24bit.
Eight "croaks" on a wooden frog guiro, recorded on samson q2u. All "croaks" here are made by dragging the playing stick up the frog's back in the same direction each time.
A late summer soundscape that is a favorite of mine. . Microphones set up in some mature woods about 60 feet from a large lake on labor day weekend. Most of the background is the insects, which are very obvious during this time of year. The swelling of their volume is nap-inducing (*at least to me in my opinion. )here is the midwest this swelling and subsiding of the insect wave tells me that summer is just about starting to go back downhill, after a feverish peak. Despite the covid-19 of the year, nature does not seem to have changed her soundscape. Life goes on in the forests. The birds, whose job of raising young is over, are still there. . . They're just resting and relaxing and listening to the insects as well i'm sure. Now of course you will hear a few prominent birds in this captured moment:(1) a great blue heron squawks out starting at 1:17 into this piece. (2) the alarm call of a red-headed woodpecker can be heard at 2:14. Other than that, just the insects singing their hearts out and the assortment of birds taking secondary place during this time of year. This was recorded on sunday september 6th 2020 at 8:30 in the morning in the forest in southern illinois. Equipment: zoom f4, microphone: sennheiser mkh 8060. Enjoy this audio snapshot of the subdued -- yet vibrant - sound color of late summer, finding comfort in the fact that, within four weeks, the colors of the leaves will be changing to oranges and reds and yellows. But, for now, there is still life to live in the insect and bird world.
Here in the midwest we were treated to a nice preview of autumn here in the northern hemisphere. Both the temperature and humidity were nicely lower than usual and this soundscape was recorded featuring the beautiful northern breezes and a few of the birds that still live here. Since this ambience was recorded during the work-week, there are hardly any man-made internal combustion engine noises. Just the wind lifting and swirling through the tired forest and the blue jays, crows and insects. Recording made at 2:30pm on september 13 2022. Equipment used: recorder-sound devices 702microphones- left channel- sennheiser mkh 416right channel - sennheiser mkh 8070. The right channel, the very low-noise direction shotgun microphone, was pointed just about straight up at the leaves and branches of a huge cottonwood tree whose dry leaves were putting on a show. Hope you can hear this. Recorded and edited in stereo so either good studio monitors or headphones will make you feel you are in the forest surrounded by the gentle breezes swirling through oaks and cottonwood trees and insects and birds.
A recording of the beautiful, trilling song of the pine warbler. Saturday april 13th, 2013. Made at 6:30am in a pine grove, using my handy zoom h4n recorder with its built-in microphones.
I had left my recorder near the woods for a 20 minute recording of the natual sounds. When i reviewed the file i found the attached sound where a flying insect had buzzed the microphone.
Recording of various creaks and groans made by (somewhat embarrassingly) my studio chair!recorded on roland r09hr 44. 1khz 16bit stereo with on board mics. Gain lifted in peak post recording.
Sound of vintage lefima metal snare with metal brushes and wood-tip sticks. Equipped with remo legacy la on top and remo ambassador weather king on bottom side. Sorry for the 50hz-hum!.
Small "wooden fish" or mokugyo temple block from kohya-san, japan, played with the original cloth covered beater. Recorded in mono with an akg 414, fredenstein mic amp, rme fireface interface into pro tools.
A recording made around noon on the edge of a woods located right in the middle of a major midwestern university. Throughout this entire recording, you'll hear the everpresent hum of heating and air conditioner units running. You will also hear faint conversations and laughter of students as they walk to class, faint sounds from a nearby construction site, distant rumble of traffic, the distant droning of an airplane lazily floating through the april sky. From time to time you will also hear the well known "beep. . . Beep. . . . . Beep. . . . " of a piece of heavy equipment backing up. However, despite all of the dominating background of man and his machines, nature comes through. Sincei was sitting on the edge of a fairly large woods which sits in the center of all of the concrete and glass and steel, the sweet singing of birds lasts throughout much of this recording. Equipment used: zoom h4n recorder using the internal stereo microphones set on 180 degrees for the greatest sound capture.
Rain in brittany on a windy winter day. I built this sound by mixing several field recordings made on the same spot: a small wood in the south of the region. These recordings had different focuses: some were more wind-oriented, others had more rain. . . Instead of publishing these individual takes, i chose to mix them in order to create a soundscape that would vary in density, depth and spacing. Recorded with a zoom h2n in x/y stereo mode. Mixed in nuendo 2. Mastered in sound forge 8.
Wide-angle soundscape of trovill beach on the swedish island of sandhamn on the eastern outskirts of the stockholm archipelago. It is a partly cloudy, windy day and a fair amount of people are at the beach, few are bathing. Some boats and ships pass by in the mid distance. The recorder is situated in a small wood some 40m or so from the shore, facing the beach and capturing a wide angle. Recorded with a zoom h2n. These are the rear channels of a 4ch surround recording. Mics set to 120° dispersion.
Recorded sounds of a micro sd card and a micro sd card adapter. Sounds recorded (in order):1. Inserting micro sd card into adapter. 2. Extracting micro sd card from adapter. 3. Dropping the adapter on a wood table. 4. Dropping the adapter on a wood table again. 5. Inserting adapter into my laptop. 6. Extracting adapter from my laptop. 7. Inserting adapter into my laptop again. 8. Extracting adapter from my laptop again.
Sundown meadow. Recording device: canon 1100d, then 2 records converted to. Wav and cupled in audacity to 1 record. Place, date: slovakia, 19. 5. 2015,19:32.
Ceramic bowl hitting table as it's put down. Can also use as meat cleaver hitting wooden chopping board. Recorded using hi-q app by audiophile on samsung galaxy s7.
The assorted sounds of rolling house paint onto a wall with a wood pole, lambswool shuck and plastic/metal frame, from a plastic pan. Some bumps and clanks but also a few sections of sticky latex application.
A wooden door creaking dramatically on its hinges, and letting out a very long and sustained groan. Recorded on zoom h2n with rode nt4 in shockmount. Normalised, topped and tailed, no further processing or editing.
Short atmospheric nature background with cricket sounds in a forest in the south of germany, near the black forest. Recorded with tascam dr70d and rode ntg4+please do credit me if you plan to use in your production.
Doorcreak, door, wooden door, door open, open, opened, door close, close, closed, wood, creak, wooden door creak, creaks, creaked, squeak, squeaky, hinge, door hinge, hinge squeak, hinge creak.
Sound of a person walking through forest undergrowth, 'white noise' of high tree branches swaying in the wind can be heard. Recorded on a stereo audio technica bp4025 into a zoom f8 mixer.
A wooden violin thrown across a room hard several times. Used in episode 8 "decoherence" of the genius-podcast audio drama, to be the sound of someone pitching their violin across the room in frustration.
2 empty shotgun shells hitting the ground simultaneously on a wood floor, 12 gauge shells i think? there is a little bit of background noise, but should still hopefully be usable.
Walking through my local woods , on the lizard peninsula, cornwall, mainly birds with loud bees. I had the mic on a selfie stick and was holding it close to the bees, the birds were loud still.
A small creek deep in the forest in the midwest u-s-a. This was recorded on sunday may 6th, 2018 using the sound devices 702and the audiotechnica bp4025 stereo microphone. Nothing like the peaceful sound of a creek with the birds being active.
Lady walking on wooden stage in theatre i work. Recording made for play. Hardware: behringer b-1, m-audio fasttrack ultra, macbook prosoftware: adobe audition cs 6no post processing.
A recording of a burbling stream in drummondreach wood, black isle, highland, scotland on 8th april using a zoom h2n. No filtering or other effects used afterwards. Some birds in background.
Birdsong of the chuck-will's-widow, a nocturnal bird that begins to sing at dusk. Recorded near chattanooga, tennessee in my back yard at edge of woods. It was captured on a zoom h1 handy recorder and edited with audacity.
A heavy impact noise created by pounding on a wall covered in bed foam. Creates a nice muffled slamming effect without the smacking sound of flesh hitting wood.
