BorrisJun 4, 2024

#AudioMo
On this day in 2007, I recorded a particularly awesome thunderstorm using a home-made Jecklin disk, an Edirol R1, and a pair of modified Panasonic microphones. The microphones were completely exposed to the elements, and the recorder was wrapped in three layers of zip-lock bag inside a cooler to keep it dry.

This is one of my favorite field recordings that I've captured myself. Poor Boots the dog, though, left out there all alone...

http://www.borris.me/audio/Storm-04Jun2007.flac

Show threadKara GoldfinchJun 4, 2024
@BorrisInABox US storms don't mess around do they. Thunder amazes me that it sounds like something cooked up in a Hollywood sound studio even though it's completely natural.
Show threadBorris
@KaraLG84 Yeah. We don't often get storms that sound like this where I live now.
Jun 4, 2024 at 1:00pmWeb
Show threadKara GoldfinchJun 4, 2024
@BorrisInABox I wish I had a recorder when I went to Disney World in 2000. pretty much every day sometime in the early evening you'd get these massive cracks of thunder like I've never heard before. You got that huge tearing sound and everything.
Show threadBorrisJun 4, 2024
@KaraLG84 Yep, that's Florida. They have these pop-up storms that make you think the world is about to end, then three minutes later, it's like nothing ever happened.
Show threadKara GoldfinchJun 4, 2024
@BorrisInABox That's it. It absolutely chucked it down just as soon as we got into the England part of EPCOT. It was like someone turned on a rain tank to make us Brits feel at home.
Show threadBorrisJun 4, 2024
@KaraLG84 How terribly appropriate.
Show threadKara GoldfinchJun 4, 2024
@BorrisInABox Yep. We ended up sheltering in the Rose and Crown pub's doorway
Show threadBorrisJun 4, 2024
@KaraLG84 A few years ago, we were driving from Key Largo to Miami, which is maybe a two hour drive or so. In that time, we went through a few 30 second storms. BOOM! BIG RAIN! Wait, where'd it go?
Show threadKara GoldfinchJun 4, 2024
@BorrisInABox Fantastic but scary.
Show threadSarah RussellJun 4, 2024
@BorrisInABox @KaraLG84 Yup, all thanks to the sea breezes coming from either side of the state, they meet and boom, insta-storm. I don't miss it, lived in Florida for 11 years. Thankfully only had one house strike in all that time.
Show threadBorrisJun 4, 2024
@blindbat84 @KaraLG84 It's funny how Florida is the sunshine state, but also the lightning capital.