Short audio clip of a sunny day in the outdoors. Taken in a quiet neighborhood with plenty of insect sounds and the occasional distant honking of a goose or passing car.
A loud, mesmerizing chorus of summer insects. Recorded in the shawnee forest in july of 2017. Towards the end of this recording you hear the lazy drone of a plane. Marantz pmd-661 and audio-technica bp-4025 microphone.
A wonderful typical mid-summer soundscape of cicadas, and some katydids recorded on the edge of a small town in illinois. Towards the end of the recording you will hear a very cool doppler-effect as the truck passes from right to left. Recorded about 8:00 at night with my zoom h4-n recorder using it's internal microphones. I had the volume level set fairly high -- 80 -- so you will probably also hear the constant hum of the various central air conditioning units. .
A peaceful, insect dominated recording of an open field surrounded by woods in the midwest. Equipment: zoom f3emc clippy 272 omni microphones. Recorded on august 24th 2022.
A few minutes of heavyish rain which gently stops and the birds begin to sing again. Children in a neighbouring garden play and the wind is audible in the trees throughout. Recorded at 96khz 24bit. Free to use in anything.
I started world listening day off listening to cardigan town at night with the barn owls hissing. A long recording from a velux roof window onto an edirol r44 with rode ntg-1 mic in blimp. The owls are particularly active about 18-20minutes in!.
Insects at midnight recorded in a remote rural area on a sony himd minidisc recorded using a rode nt-4 stereo microphone covered with a rycote windscreen.
A beach in swden summer 2012, with lots of families with small children. Recorded with ipad 3 using apogee imic, just slightly eq:ed to remove sub 100 hz noise, and stereosimulated using cubase´s mono to stereo.
My 1st recording with my marantz pmd661, with enhanced preamplifiers by oade brothers. I used my two matching stereo samson co2 microphones with the input level on 7. Recording made around 9pm at night on august 1st, 2014 in a small midwestern town. The chorus of cicadas and tree frogs is very steady on this one.
Japanese street ambience: cicadas, passing some cars and a bicycle, recorded with iphone at a street of hachimanyama, residential area in tokyo, 2014/08/13/day.
Son de cigales en provence. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. Sound of cicadas in provence. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).
Son de cigales en provence. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. Sound of cicadas in provence. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).
Son de cigales en provence. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. Sound of cicadas in provence. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).
Son de grillons en provence. Son enregistré avec un zoom h4n pro et une bonnette rycote mini wind screen. Sound of crickets in provence. Sound recorded with a zoom h4n pro and a rycote mini wind screen. My sounds are licensed under the creative commons 0 license but it would be a pleasure for me to hear your work so doesn’t hesitate to comment or to send me a message with your work :).
Recording made about 7am on a warm summer morning in late july. Recording made with my zoom h4n using my home-made parabolic microphone. Notice the ebb and flow of the insects, almost mesmerizing.
