On September 17, 2022, our local fire department celebrated its 130th birthday. To mark the occasion, a parade was held featuring fire trucks from all over the county. Here is a five minute clip of the parade as it reached my house. Actually, my microphones are set very low and without pre-processing, but in this…

It is half past ten in the evening here, and someone just thought it would be a good idea to show off his trumpet skills. Well, at least it makes some noise.

This is a recording I made to test a new sound device for my outside microphones, an Axagon ADA-17 if you’re curious. It has a 3.5 inch stereo input and provides a litte more plugin power than the usual 1.5V, a very rarely seen feature in cheap USB devices. To get an idea of the…

In germany the car signal for police and fire fighters is called the Martinshorn. There are two different versions of the alarm depending on the driving environment (city or countryside). In this recording you hear an alarm switching between both versions every second for some odd reason. So either this thing was just broken or…

Nothing to report recently from my neighborhood, so let’s have a listen to some older recordings. First one is a nearby lightning strike from june 13th 2020. You can even hear the time difference between lightning and thunder in this recording.

Recorded July 3rd, 2022 at quarter past midnight. It is still not clear what exactly happened in our neighborhood, most likely this spectacular breakthrough has been caused by a drunken guy.

Seems a lot of animal action happens at my house today. I’m not sure if these cats are just struggling or even make love. Enjoy anyway.

Another short one from recent microphone archives. This amuses me somehow.

The song is called "Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht" by Drafi Deutscher in 1965.