Sometimes you just have to go outside and see/hear what is there. I was kind of tired of the steady rumble on my recordings in town, even if it’s only a village. The rumble most certainly comes from the nearby highway as well as from the A/C units everyone is using in town.

Not many ways around it without making the recording sound tinny and unnatural.

It’s not often I get up early in the morning, wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. I usually fall back into a deep sleep until well past civilized wakeup times. Sometimes, though, it happens. Last weekend was such a time. I was awake at 5:30 am and couldn’t get back to sleep.

So the next logical step was to grab a face cloth, dunk it in icy water and put it on my face to make sure that this golden moment wouldn’t go away.

Soon I will have to make some decisions. As well as fine suitable locations where to carry out my plans. When I was recording these Spring Peepers, they were close to an intersection with traffic coming and going all ways. It was not very busy, but this was a spot where I could find Spring Peepers.

Spring Peepers are tiny tree frogs, making a very specific sound in spring.

Often enough, as a recordist, you encounter a sound that just begs to be recorded. But it comes with “extras”, background noise, cars, or most likely some dark background rumble we don’t even hear ourselves.

Imagine this bird (not the same as in the recording, granted.