To catch the thunder, the most important part is to protect your recording gear. Thunder comes with lightning, and lightning often comes with rain or heavy rain. The first thing that you need to protect is your microphones. In my case, I put them underneath the railing on my deck.

 Once these microphones are protected, it is time to protect the recorder.
 In my case, the recorder is a small Zoom  F3. I purchased a set of “dry bags” a while ago from Amazon, and these come in handy for exactly this type of recording.

A few days ago, I went out to record some nice, quiet forest sounds. It was raining slightly, so I set up my gear under some leaves.

Since I already had some bad experience with water in my Zoom F3 a few months ago, this time I packed it in a Ziploc bag (upside down) to keep things dry.

I love recording nature sounds. It often boils down to water flowing and birds, but hey, you take what you can get. One of the cleanup processes is always to ensure that the low rumble in recordings gets eliminated.

A little EQ on the audio gets rid of the low-end rumble in a second.

Recording in winter seems like a lost cause. At least for nature/field recording. The animals have mostly left the scene for warmer climates, leaving the area with barely a few birds to record. Good luck locating those in Canada.

All we are left with are empty woods with barely a sound, or water in all its forms.