Rain Loop Ontario

Seamless loop of beautiful, enveloping rain.

Adapted from a recording made by user igsmrlmmu, uploaded as "94.flac". All expertise is theirs. I really liked the sound; the distinctive slap of fat rain drops on the leaves creates a more dynamic and dimensional feel than the straight hush of some rain recordings.

For people like myself who like to play this kind of material as a peaceful background loop to accompany work or rest, I made some changes. First, I edited out the most identifiable or conspicuous moments — trains, planes, the odd rain splat too close to the mic — which become wearisome in any sound that is looped for long periods. You can't reach zen if every ten minutes you're going, "here comes that train again!" Critical listening still yields the occasional mild groan and sigh of far-off vehicles, soft and distant. I also blended the ends so that, when the sound is set to repeat on your player, there is no gap or jarring change in timbre. It just goes and goes.

For practical reasons, I made some technical changes, too, including a clumsy mixdown from six-channel surround (!) to two-channel stereo so that ordinary software and devices can play the file without complaint.

All changes made under the Creative Commons Attribution License which igsmrlmmu assigned to the original recording, graciously allowing remixing, transformation etc. of the material.