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.

Last time I presented you with some Dominican Republic ambience. Now it’s the time for the birds to speak. The last time I saw an egret in the wild was in Manitoba, a few years ago. Getting close to them was near impossible. Their eyesight seems much better than mine. They usually were on their way out before I even spotted them.

A little while ago, I went on a small one-week vacation (don’t we all like that to be months, not weeks?) to the Dominican Republic.