This is my nicest recording I have ever made of a storm and there's a
lots of dynamism in there. I recorded this in a really big storm in the
night on 26th
of August, 2004. I wake up but not because of the lightning. I live
near a big city, so I can see the red lights of the clouds in the night
sky. I have seen a pulsing light from the window and I thought, there
will be a storm. Because I like photographing lightning so I caught my
cassette recorder and the mono mic in my left hand and the
photographing set in my right hand and I run down to the first floor
and went outside to the high-stand in the garden. Running out I saw
some intracloud lightning and heard the thunder and they struck closer and closer. On the high-stand I standed
up the photographing set and started to take some photograph of
lightning. The storm lasted about three hours but I was so lucky
because of there were the most lightning and the coolest thunder sounds
in this five minute. Lightning struck frequently and frequently and I
was more frightened and more frightened...the sky seemed to blow out
until 2:40 seconds. Then everything become quiet but I thought that the
lightning is gonna have to struck nearby in the town!!! And this is the
nicest moment: I waited for this event, and at the end, IT HAPPENED and
started to rain...This sound recorded by a Grundig
cassette recorder and a mono PHILIPS microphone so loud thunder sounds
are a bit distorted. You can hear the radio-crackling noise before the
thunder sounds.

Comments

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  Saturn_robot 9 months, 1 week ago

  It´s 3 in the morning and i was looking like crazy for a nice storm. Thank you from buenos aires!
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  Bund 9 months, 2 weeks ago

  I almost love the so called background noise (all the small noises and mistakes) more than the thunder itself. It is even so that the thunder strikes become the background -- and so it's more a fore-ground/back-ground relationship which makes this take an interesting example of being a take _as_ take. thanks!
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  steve42lawson 1 year, 3 months ago

  Because of all the background noise, this is really only useful as a source of individual thunderclaps (i.e. they need to be edited out of the whole). Also, some of the louder claps are clipped and the sound is a bit tinny (i.e. the freq response isn't flat). Also, it sounds like the mike or recorder picked up the electromagnetic energy of the lightening strikes. Not sure if that came through the air or from the power lines, but some sort of filtering and/or shielding is in order.

  Other than that, pretty cool.
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  tleblan1 1 year, 9 months ago

  thank you!!
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  jlongen 2 years, 8 months ago

  nice work man, sounds great!