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Borris

#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

Jun 4, 2024 at 12:08pmWeb
Show threadMartin from TorontoJun 4, 2024
@BorrisInABox Nice stereo imagery. Lots of base too... and I love the thunder sound at around the 5:40 mark. Oh yeah, poor doggy.
Show threadMister KrabsJun 4, 2024
@BorrisInABox A really clear and nice recording. I should really bother to set up an outside mic thingie at some point. We get lots of these super loud thunderstorms.
Show threadBorrisJun 4, 2024
@misterkrabs It's funny. That was one of the worst digital recorders I ever had in terms of signal-to-noise ratio, headroom, gain staging and all that. Actually, it was my very first solid-state recorder after moving away from Minidisc.
It could have been better with better gear, but often, it's just about knowing how to use what you've got to the best.
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 threadBorrisJun 4, 2024
@KaraLG84 Yeah. We don't often get storms that sound like this where I live now.
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.
Show threadworld's worst gothJun 4, 2024
@BorrisInABox internet stranger, this is beautiful! It also just caused me an epiphany about my dislike of white noise machine rain: my cozy comfort weather memory is sitting in a screened porch as a wee thing listening to a proper mid-US rolling thunder storm. Dogs optional but not unwelcome.
Show threadBorrisJun 4, 2024
@tsdower There is just something about that, isn't there? I love that kind of thing. Everyone else in my house absolutely doesn't.