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thunderstorm.flac

Overall rating (119 ratings)
Erdie

October 1st, 2006

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Sound effects > Natural elements and explosions
Wiesloch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
nature

This is the thunderstorm I have waited for a long time ;) I used my cheaper MBHO MBNM410 omnidirectional microphones because I was afraid they could be damaged by the water.I recorded out of my balcony. This sample is just a cut. At the end there is some noise because i had to pull the microphones into the door because of the rain. At one time, there was a thunder with such dynamics that there was a shortcut of the microphones phantom power, this did not sound very well, I just cut this part. But I was afraid my mics could have been damaged ;) I did not apply any compression, thus, be careful with you loudspeakers ... The recording was made with 50cm AB recording setup. The Preamp was a RME Quadmic connected to a Multiface II Interface.

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explosion
field-recording
flash
growl
horror
lightning
nature
rain
storm
thunder
thunder-storm
thunderstorm
water
weather
wind

Type

Flac (.flac)

Duration

3:13.907

File size

13.0 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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Schmoek

17 years, 9 months ago

Amazingly clean recording. Perfect work!

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stormguy2

17 years, 11 months ago

Best recorded thunder storm I have heard! Awesome
dynamic range stormguy2

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Vann Westfold

18 years, 5 months ago

Great!

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vvhirI

18 years, 11 months ago

Read description before listening, ignored warning, turned up volume to hear the pretty rain, and then CRACK... BOOM... RUMBLE!! I hid under my desk for the remainder of the clip.

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my_sharona

19 years ago

Amazing, with your help I'm sure my 9 yr old daughter will get an "A" for her explanation of thunderstorms at school on Friday - the sound will be the icing on the cake - thank you for sharing and making it possible for students to get this sort of thing off the internet.

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