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Describing my outside microphone setup
Hello folks! Steffen here, also known as Radiorobbe. Since some of you have been wondering how my 24/7 street microphones work, here is a brief explanation of my setup. It’s not very professional, but it’s working fine for more than 5 years. First of all, I apologize for the artificial version of my voice. It…
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Bees and cars (recorded april 28th, 2025)
At about 5:00 this afternoon while I was sitting in my backyard, I heard a steadily increasing buzzing sound above me. At first I thought it was our neighbor flying his drone over the area, but since the buzzing seemed to be coming from nearly everywhere, it must have been a huge swarm of insects.…
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Testing my new Zoom H1 XLR with binaural mics
I already own the H6 from the Essential series and was originally going to get the extra module with the additional XLR combo jacks + 3.5 inch input so I could connect my binaural microphones for mobile use. But since the plug-in module costs almost as much as an additional recorder, I bought the Zoom…
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Let it snow, let it melt
Last night I was awakened by a sound as if someone tipping a large bucket of water from the roof of the house through the downspout. It was melting snow that had accumulated on the roof and then fell all down at once. My window microphones picked up the sound, of course.
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Merry Christmas, poor lamppost!
The lamppost in front of my house already has seen a lot in its life. It has been hit by cars and trucks at least twice, and then of course there are the many ugly politician faces on election posters that disfigure its pretty face every few years. The latest accident happened this morning when…
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A lonely field cricket
This recording was made outside my bedroom window just after midnight on August 29, 2024. You can hear the loud chirping of a cricket, as well as the typical noises of the night. An air conditioner is humming from somewhere, from time to time you can hear a soft rustling coming from different directions.
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Lorem ipsum
What happens if you paste a lorem ipsum placeholder text into Suno AI, and selecting orchestral/epic as genre? The result is quite impressive. Source link: https://suno.com/song/85082119-78bc-4b77-830f-48079ddf4b01
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Monster cats
I recently played around with Elevenlabs’ Sound Effects feature. This allows you to create sounds by typing in a prompt, with more or less good results. The following sound was created after typing "cat fight" as a prompt. Well, you don’t want to meet these monster cats fighting in a pile of garbage. 😄 More…
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Forbidden honk
Quite catchy fanfare melody horn, I’ve never heard this variant before. And yes, these horns are actually not allowed here, though nobody really cares.