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.

We all want sounds to be as clear and crisp as possible. Just for that, I got myself a Zoom F3, compact, 32bit float recording, the works. It could do with combo inputs, but I can live with XLR-only as well.

Then comes the placement of the rig. Since it doesn’t come with mics, it’s necessary to get some. Then a small tripod/stand of some sort, the cables and you’re off to the races.