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.
After that it’s the Waiting Game. You will either get something good, or you won’t. And even if you should get something good, many things can still go wrong. A loud car passing just at the same moment as the thunder, a neighbour sneezing because he is watching the same storm as you are, the list goes on and on.
I was recording in 32b float, so at least overloading of the signal was not part of the challenges.
If you have been reading this far, you deserve the recording; here it is:
Until next time...