Sometimes it is “necessary” to update the content of the toolbox. I have had plenty of times where my trusty Zoom H6 declared surrender when recording high dynamic sound. Either I got the raindrops right and the thunder was blown out, or I didn’t get the raindrops and a perfect thunderclap.

Recording in multiple formats at once is a solution, but one that bugs me.

Well, probably. I walked across some roads here in Liverpool and was harassed by some very loud animals. At first, I heard them from far away; I thought they were some weird sounding birds. Yet I could see no birds and the sound was very loud.

I decided to record that as best as I could, with a fairly busy road close by.

When we arrived in the Dominican Republic, it was close to midnight. No way to see anything but the inside of the hotel room. The next morning, I got up quite groggy from the short night and went on to the balcony.

There I was hit with a sound ambience that I decided to record immediately.

When you imagine yourself on a tropical beach in the morning, you expect to hear the waves and nothing else. Nothing could be further from the truth. Plenty of animals (humans not excluded) try to make your wakeup time as animated as possible.

Noise and screams are everywhere.