A typical early morning summer forest soundscape recorded on may 28th 2016 with the marantz pmd-661 and two sennheiser microphones for a true stereo recording.
Walking on pine needles on a late-winter day in the middle of a peaceful forest of 45 foot tall white pines. Recorded in early march using the zoom h4n recorder and it's built-in stereo microphones.
A recording made in july around 7:00 at night near a huge man-made lake. The ever-present insects are there, but overshadowed by the peepers. 13 seconds in a dog barks off in the distance and the echo is just incredible. 24 seconds into the recording is the classic call of the red-wing blackbird. Made with samson c0-2 stereo microphones feeding a zoom h4n recorder.
I've labelled this as a thrush, but i'm no ornithologist. I recorded it outside my house in northumberland, england at 03:30am on 22nd may 2012, using an olympus ws-560m digital recorder. You can hear a stream running faintly in the background and the odd pheasant call from across the valley.
Country side ambient background: crickets, birds, insects. Distant cow bells, sheep, dog barking. Far away car. Recorded on tascam dr-100mk3, 2x microtech m930 in ortf setup.
Mountainside forest, high elevation, thunderstorms in the vicinity. Recorded using a sound professionals ms-tfb-2 binaural headset microphone worn in my ears and their 12vdc power box connected to a griffin usb imic and laptop running audacity. +6db digital gain applied.
Setup: 2 dynamic sennheiser microphones, one pointed out of the window in the west on a tree and the other one out of the window in the south pointed at a tranquil street.
The great shearwater (puffinus gravis) is a seabird typical of the island of la gomera, canary islands, spain. This recording of their signature "owa-owa" call was recorded in playa santiago on la gomera in march 2017 with a zoom h2 recorder.
I recorded with my sony recorder some nature sounds in berlin buch. There is an autobahn near the forrest which i filtered a bit out in the deep frequencies.
The summer tanager in the middle of heavy forest in the midwest. Other birds are heard in the background, but the prominent singer is the summer tanager. Recorded in may of 2017 with the marantz pmd661 using the beyerdynamic me58 microphone.
Bird chirping, singing; ambience, suburb. Sounded recorded with zoom h4n, in a suburb of keszthely (hungary). Processed: lowcut, compression, converted to flac(audacity; level 8).
This is the sound of two crickets giving a concert in a secluded area. There is also the sound of a large truck operating to your left. Loopable, as far as i know.
A very summer sound: a large bee buzzing by the microphones. This is a carpenter bee, commonly referred to as a bumblebee in the united states. Recording can stand for most any buzzing insect, though.
Part 1 of 2. Nightinggale and other birds recorded from inside my room, in may 2000. Using apple microphone and minidisc. Recorded in a green area in a suburb in stavanger, norway.
A recording of a pair of hawks that often nest in this small town in southern illinois. It seems that the essence of the wild is captured in the sound of a screeching hawk. Recording made during the late afternoon on a day in late february 2013. Equipment used: zoom h4n recorder using the built-in stereo microphones turned to collect sound from 180 degrees.