This is a place to post your field recordings for the community to enjoy and use as they see fit.
Please include a brief description of the audio, location, and any processing that may have been applied.
Cheers!
JS
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Awesome idea! Are you hosting offsite or are you hoping for mp3 as opposed to wav format in order to get around the 10mb upload limitation? I’m trying to figure out if single wavs are better than a zip of mp3 files or if I need to host on dropbox 
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I was in British Columbia the past couple weeks and did a little recording. I used a Zoom H4N Pro. Everything was low-cut at 100HZ, 24db/Octave.
Tidepools - Tofino, BC
Birds - Tofino & Salt Spring, BC
Rainforest - Salt Spring, BC
Beach Walk - Tofino, BC
Beach - Forest - Tofino, BC
Crowd Noise - Vancouver, BC
Crowd Noise with Horses - Vancouver, BC
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Thanks!
Honestly, I hadn’t really thought about it. I was just going to upload MP3s personally because it’s easy.
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Thanks for starting this thread! Excited to hear everyone’s captures.
Here’s a recording I took late spring of this year, from the edge of Allegheny National Forest. It’s the transition time from the night chorus of spring peepers into the dawn chorus of various birds. Early morning from about 5 to 6:30am.
My drop-rig: Zoom F3 + Earsight stereo omni condenser mics + 15000 mAh external battery. No processing.
Fully downloadable so please all feel free to use however you’d like. Would love to hear if you make something with it though!
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This is great!
@DonovanDwyer, care to share anything when you return from your session with Richard Devine?
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Will do 
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These are awesome. What do you use for cover when recording in the rain? (re: Rainforest - Salt Spring, BC) Really need to make my way back to the PNW soon.
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In that recording, the rain had just stopped and what you’re hearing is the water dripping off of the trees. The place we were staying was in the forest so the recorder was protected by a covered deck.
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Great idea for a thread!
30th December 2011
voices in the Chislehurst Caves in South London as the tour guide leaves the group in darkness to strike a metal drum
8th January 2012
a music box winding down
25th July 2019
rain & distant thunder
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Maytag Arrhythmia
This is pretty mundane but last year when my clothes dryer was dying on me, in the brief time before it started making a crazy grinding chain noise and kicked the bucket, it had started producing kind of an interesting, off-time, rhythmic shuffle sound which I recorded from a few different angles with a zoom h1.
All I did to the files was add a millisecond fade to the beginning and end. I also created a second set of files with the same recordings where I added a super mild reverb, so 7 recordings, 2 versions each, 14 total files all pretty similar.
I found some them surprisingly useful so try them if you want, or don’t!
I uploaded a zip to dropbox with all my files and here’s an example so that you don’t waste your time if you don’t like weird lofi rhythmic machine ambience. I did not normalize or change the volume of the original recordings so they’re a bit low.
Nice uploads people!
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