free rain samples?

[toine6]

http://www.13trackshalloweencd.com/hag.html

"Used by Pros worldwide"

Huh. Weird lookin' little program, I'm actually tempted to try it out just to see what I can turn out. Funny thing happened as I was looking at it's virtual typing keyboard, I started thinking to myself "why the hell does it say QWERTY etc., they f**ked up the keyboard. Why?" Then it occured to me for the first time ever (boy am I a quick one) that every keyboard say's QWERTY. I've always heard of these specialized keyboards called Qwerty boards and just thought there was some kind of meaning behind the name (Quality Workstation Extra Ranged Typing Yoyo). Well , instead it now appears that some yoyo just looked at the first 6 letters on the keyboard and decided it made a nice name. OK

I need to get out more.

[ost12666]

do they exist?

http://www.findsounds.com/

[McLilith]

2nd version is uploaded.
You can find it in the same spot as the last
The Music cafe post.
Take a listen and hear the shortness of the rain sample...

That sounds pretty good, but I think you could use a little bit of thunder inserted at some appropriate moment. You might want to try one of my thunder samples:

McLilith's Online Samples

take care,
McLilith

[pannewb]

http://www.13trackshalloweencd.com/hag.html

"Used by Pros worldwide"

Huh. Weird lookin' little program, I'm actually tempted to try it out just to see what I can turn out. Funny thing happened as I was looking at it's virtual typing keyboard, I started thinking to myself "why the hell does it say QWERTY etc., they f**ked up the keyboard. Why?" Then it occured to me for the first time ever (boy am I a quick one) that every keyboard say's QWERTY. I've always heard of these specialized keyboards called Qwerty boards and just thought there was some kind of meaning behind the name (Quality Workstation Extra Ranged Typing Yoyo). Well , instead it now appears that some yoyo just looked at the first 6 letters on the keyboard and decided it made a nice name. OK

I need to get out more.

The other thing that is strange about the QWERTY is that it was made to slow your typing down. Back when they were still using typewriters, if you typed more than about 50 words per minute, the keys got stuck together from all that movement. And so somebody scrambled the letters to slow everyone down to decrease problems. And before it had to be changed back, computers were invented.

In short, the qweeeer qwerty keyboard is one of the only inventions ever made to slow something down.

[Hunter]

I love thunderstorms, don't get them here much though. Wish you could recreate that thunderstorm smell too

[McLilith]

I love thunderstorms, don't get them here much though. Wish you could recreate that thunderstorm smell too

Use an appropriate scented air freshener, a humidifier, and an ozone generator?

I just wish I had a high quality digital field recorder and some good mics. There's lots of natural sounds I want to capture.


Take care,
McLilith

[Barf]

This site opened last week or so:
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
for all your sample needs

[Hunter]

I just wish I had a high quality digital field recorder and some good mics. There's lots of natural sounds I want to capture.

Me too. I think I mentioned this before but when I lived on the Orkney Isles, I wanted to record lots of sounds and make a cohesive concept piece of music with those sounds. Never got round to it. I heard one of the most interesting, fascinating sounds I have ever heard there - a stoney beach with head-sized stones, when the waves came in, the stones made this intriguing burbley rolling sound the likes of which I have never hear anywhere else.

you can get quite a nice stereo mic from Richer Sounds here in the UK that is apparently very cheap and very small and remarkably good quality. Can't remember make or model.

[lunarhalo]

I have unedited omni directional mic recordings of thunderstorms here in Georgia. Some even have air raid sirens and public broadcast announcements telling the public to seek immediate shelter. PM me so I can send these to you.

~~LH

I would be interested to know what sort of technique you used to record those. I've recorded some thunderstorms here in West Virginia. It's a tricky thing to capture. I want to capture the actual storm, and not any rain spilling out of gutters, rain hitting the roof, no extraneous dripping noises, no wind noise blasting the microphone, etc.

Also, it always seems like I miss out on the really noisy storms. It seems like I'm never at home for those. My M-Audio Delta 1010LT is also sensitive to the electrical discharge that lightning radiates. I often get an irritating "Pfft!" noise just before a thunder crash.

My old Diamond MX-300 soundcard did much better in that regard, but it wasn't nearly as good as the M-Audio card in any other way.


take care,
McLilith

I am using stereo omnidiretional condensers and a small 9V preamp made by a company in Canada called Church Audio. The signal gets inputted into the laptop via a Echo Indio I/O and recorded using Adobe Audition. Distant thunder is easy to capture, it's the immediate flash/booms (run for cover!:-o) that are hard to level. Yes I do get the rain in gutter sounds but the eventually the storms get so severe its like white noise and crashing chaos. Now that I'm settling into my new home I would like to put more thought into sheltering/isolating the mics (to capture pure rain hitting earth and mother natures subsonics).

BTW... Use www.noaa.gov for near real time radar updates!

~~LH

[McLilith]

I am using stereo omnidiretional condensers and a small 9V preamp made by a company in Canada called Church Audio. The signal gets inputted into the laptop via a Echo Indio I/O and recorded using Adobe Audition. Distant thunder is easy to capture, it's the immediate flash/booms (run for cover!:-o) that are hard to level. Yes I do get the rain in gutter sounds but the eventually the storms get so severe its like white noise and crashing chaos. Now that I'm settling into my new home I would like to put more thought into sheltering/isolating the mics (to capture pure rain hitting earth and mother natures subsonics).

BTW... Use www.noaa.gov for near real time radar updates!

~~LH

Thanks for the information. I've been using this lightning tracking site:

Lightning Map


take care,
McLilith

[tee boy]

Mate, you should hear the f**king storm we're having right now. The thunder is blowing me away! Wish I had a DAT on me

btw, you can record rain pretty easy. Find yourself some kind of cover (whatever) and set up a mic. Its not all that hard to capture. For some detailed explanations check out 'Nature Recordist' yahoo group.

[Spe3D]

Easy way to record 'rain' = hose or water can

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

[lunarhalo]

I found one of my recordings from a tunderstorm recorded with the setup mentioned above. I encoded a small sample to mp3 (43 seconds @ 320 kbps).

http://home.mchsi.com/~dulac/wsb/html/v ... html-.html

This was a small thunderstom and not to out of control. . What you will hear is rain and then a close thunder crash before the fade out.

Feel free to use the sample as you wish.

~~LH