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Recordist's notes
A storm is forecast so I set up mics inside an upstairs room. A stereo pair faces south. One mic in another window faces east and another west. This produces an odd audio quality. 7am. Downstairs a kettle boils, thunder, rain, cars, heavy rain, thunder, garden rubbish collection truck arrives and leaves, the empty garden bin is rolled from the street on the right, around the house to the back garden on the left. This is the first substantial rain in over 3 months. MixPre 6 II with 2 Sennheiser MKH 8020s in a stereo pair and 2 single Rode NT5s. 32bit x 48khz.
About the place
Great Malvern is a town of about 36,770 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 145 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Sound Devices recorders, Sennheiser MKH microphones and Røde microphones. Professional location recorders (702, 722, MixPre series) with very quiet preamps.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Morning rain and others, Malvern, UK” by David Pitt – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0