Dramatic breakers, with gentle rumbling and booming at cliff base

Near Towanroath engine house ruins (near Chapel Porth, St Agnes, Cornwall), a little to SSE, just below coast path, overlooking slight alcove in cliff — dramatic breakers, with gentle rumbling and booming at (out of sight) cliff base

I made this recording on 5 February 2020 during an extended lunch stop on a hike from Portreath to Perranporth. I'd already made two (similarly lunch-stop) recordings here, in 2014 and 2015, with a PCM-M10 recorder, and they were excellent once I'd used software to greatly improve their atrocious stereo imaging. However, I was aware that with the PCM-D100 recorder model I'd started using in spring 2016, I could expect still better results.

The first of those two was from this exact position, but the tide was higher then, so that fewer waves were breaking, and the swell was rather larger, so that when one of the larger waves did break, it sounded quite spectacular. The second recording was from close to the Towanroath engine house ruin beside the Coast Path straight ahead in this view. That captured an expansive panorama of dramatic-sounding wave-breaks, still with the gentle subterranean-sounding booming rumbles from waves hitting the foot of the cliff.

So, this is a bit different yet again, with waves not as large as in the first recording, but still large enough to sound dramatic, and more of them this time, and still with those delectable deep subterranean sounding booming rumbles giving a beautiful teasing sense of peaceful menace. 'Idyllic lunch-stop, with delicious menaces', sort-of thing!

Making this recording. The arrow points to the tiny black speck just below it, which is the recorder's furry windshields. One of the tripod legs is just visible at this image size. As for the foreground shadow of me — well, surely everyone knows I'm at the very least a pretty shady character, and apparently many who've visited one of my five websites conclude that I'm at best an outright bogeyman. "There be none as quair as folk", as they say!

Techie stuff:
The recorder was a Sony PCM-D100, with two nested custom Windcut furry windshields, placed on a lightweight Hama standard-size tripod.

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshields.

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