Large Atlantic waves majestically rolling in, proudly thundering and roaring as they break, and hitting the cliff with great eruptions of spray and often clearly audible lengthy splashdowns — lengthy because of the height reached by many of those eruptions.
I made this recording concurrently with one capturing almost the same soundscape but with Woodstock Chimes of Polaris, on 5 June 2013, on the clifftop running westwards from the narrow and inaccessible cove Zawn Wells to Pordenack Point, a little way SSE from Land's End. This recording captures more deep rumbling than the other one — that rumbling being from waves hitting the cliff base immediately below the recorder, so the direct sea sound from there is hardly heard, apart from that deliciously menacing subterranean-sounding rumbling.
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. This photo has caught the sea in a lull between groups of large waves rolling in and sending plumes or walls of spray sometimes as high as the clifftop. The other recording was from further round off to the right, with rock outcrops between there and here so that the chimes aren't heard in this one.
Note the recorder rather inconspicuous on the rock prominence in centre foreground.
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! The chimes were hung from a full-size Zipshot tripod.
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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This recording can be used free of charge, provided that it's not part of a materially profit-making project, and it is properly and clearly attributed. The attribution must give my name (Philip Goddard) and link to https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/699445/
Type
Flac (.flac)
Duration
72:52.300
File size
377.4 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
16 bit
Channels
Stereo
Comments
2 years, 1 month ago
Nice and very different from our sandy coast
