Imagine you are in a creaky old house during a thunderstorm. The old grandfather clock ticking away, a couple of cats somewhere in the house and no reception from an old black and white television or radio but your nice and cosy in front of a crackling log fire.
A short ride in my shitty toyota yaris in a storm. Rolling until i get out. Recorded with a sound devices 744 and a beyerdynamic mce 82 stereo microphone riding shotgun.
This was a fairly small air mass thunderstorm, only a few km across. However, it made up for its size with amplitude, becoming the largest attention seeker for miles around. Listen at -07:12 for some of the strangest thunder i have ever heard. . . Recorded with a rode stero videomic pro.
This is a deep bass rumble sound. Created in audacity by generating a brownian noise and band passing it through a steep 15 to 100 hz filter. The reason for the roll off below 15hz is to remove energy that doesn't produce any sound. It just moves the speaker cone and wastes amplifier power, thus it was rolled off.
A thunder recorded with my new gear "zoom h6" for testing. The micro was the xy for h6. The location was in switzerland near "st. Margerethen" at 2015-08-14.
96khz24 bit rain and thunder sound recorded withzoom h4n. It was around 1. 30am. . . The rain started with thunder rumbling. I woke up and the zoom h4n was ready and i started recording.
Full dynamic range recording of pretty clean thunderstorm [no compression, no limiting], no rain present - only some ambience. Recorded in the very centre of warsaw, poland [olympus ls-5].