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Five minutes of springtime ambience from my backyard
Recorded on april 9th, 2024 during noontime. A quite decent outside test using the XY mics of my new Zoom H6Essential recorder. It was slightly windy outside, so I put a cheap deadkitten over the mics.
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Tree branch crashes into a house
At around 3 o’clock this morning, a huge branch broke off an old tree on my street and crashed into the roof of a house. The residents were not injured, but the roof was severely damaged. Of course I have a recording of the accident. Despite all the misfortune it was quite spectacular. Thanks to…
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Happy new squeal!
A car with frozen brakes drives by at a surprisingly high speed. Anyway, the noise doesn’t sound very healthy. Recorded january 9th at 1:05 pm
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Farmers on their way to Berlin
during the early morning hours of december 18th, 2023 farmers from everywhere in germany set out for a protest event in berlin against increasing fuel prices, causing traffic jams with their columns of hundrets of tractors. Here is a recording of approximately 12 tractors passing my house around 02:20 in the morning. Because of their…
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How to freak out an ancient talking clock
Saved from a private Elten group. I was trying to misuse an old Sharp talking clock and had a little more success than expected. 😁
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Calming noises from my backyard
The following recording was made in the summer of 2013. Enjoy 6 minutes of cricket chorus from my backyard, captured with an Olympus LS-3 and it’s built-in microphones. While technically not my best setup, it indeed is one of my favorite recordings from this year. Probably because it has been a quite stressful and sad…
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Vehicle parade on september 23th, 2023
Today a parade of vintage cars, tractors and fire trucks passed my house, and I took the opportunity to better adjust the microphone gain for louder content. Except for some horns and bassy music which simply exceded the microphones maximum sound level, I think I have successfully found an acceptable setting. If someone is curious…
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Positive lightning strike (warning: loud content!)
I woke up by this formidable room shaker at 3:12 this morning. That’s where my rather poor equipment comes to it’s limitations, I definitely need better microphones and amplifiers to record such stuff. Luckily no damage has been caused.