Fairly chunky waves breaking in Nanjizal Cove, not far from Land's End

Moderately large breaking waves in Nanjizal Cove (aka Mill Bay), a quite narrow corner at south end of a wide bay not far south of the Land's End complex, Penwith, Cornwall, UK. On this occasion it was not what I'd describe as a 'surf', because if its narrowness and lack of anything to give really satisfactory surfing. However, the waves do have an exhilarating slightly thundering up-frontness of sound as they break. As compared with the various surf recordings I've made, this has a much more intimate sound, with the breaking of each wave clearly separate, and no significant general run-out sound.

I made this recording concurrently with one on the other side of the cove, on 5 June 2013.

Advisory

Because of the processing to widen and sharpen the originally atrocious stereo imaging, the sea may sound rather phasey when listened to from certain speaker systems. Therefore high-grade headphones are the best solution.

This recording taking place. Recorder is on the very exposed protruding outcrop, on tiny tripod, on east side of the cove.

West side of the cove during this recording. The recorder for a concurrent recording is just visible on the prominent cliff buttress to left (the light grey furry windshield is all one can make out at this scale of reproduction).

Techie stuff:

The recorder was Sony PCM-M10, with Røde DeadKitten furry windshield (original, more effective, version). It was set up on a Hama Mini tripod, which I'd describe as not just 'mini', but tiny!

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield — and then more recently stereo widening / sharpening-up using the VST plugin A1 Stereo Control (160% widening).

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