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Calm WinterGarden LONG 160117_0845.ogg

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klankbeeld

January 22nd, 2016

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Soundscapes > Urban
Beek, Gelderland, Netherlands
village NL EU 2016

Winter afternoon ambience of the garden in Beek-Ubbergen near Nijmegen in the Netherlands and close to the German border.
Garden in Beek 20160117
Village Beek, is build on the hills of “Beek en Dal”. The nature around here is so beautiful.

general noise;
Garden, park and forest birds call sometimes as they do in the winter.
Close; the church-bells (carillon).
Far; traffic audible. Cars park behind the 3m high garden wall. Some people now and than. Some high altitude planes.

Recorded: January 17th 2016, afternoon, church-garden (Sint-Bartholomaeuskerk), Kerkberg, Beek near Nijmegen, Gelderland, the Netherlands (Holland), Europe. Maps: 51.828319, 5.923876

Weather: wind 0-3 bft NE, temp 2c, cloudy, dry

Gear chain: modified Rode NT4 XY and Rode NTG1, in Rode Blimp > Sound Devices 302 >Tascam dr-100 Mk2. Decoded Mid-side to STEREO

This is a modern high quality -q10 (1500kbps) OGG Vobis compression file (48000Hz/16bit). You can easily use this file in HD-film and HIFI music-tracks. The sound-quality is, after this compression technique still very high. The file size reduction is about 12% of a 96/24 WAV-track. DECODE to WAV or FLAC with the free audio software Audacity.

96/24 flac-file available on PM request with email address. File-name: 160117_0845 ST.flac
Hi-fi details of this recording will be uploaded later.

Thank to Danielle and Paul for giving me the opportunity to make this recording in there park-like garden. The garden, which is part of the church property and the rectory, is situated on the hill.

There new “B&B pastorie Beek” will open spring 2016.
Website: http://bbpastoriebeek.nl/
mail: info@bbpastoriebeek.nl

Every year the “Nijmeegse vierdaagse” (the Four Day Marches) comes trough this small village.

I hope I can stay there once to make some more beautiful recordings in the hills and in the woods over there.

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afternoon
ambiance
ambience
ambient
atmo
atmos
atmosphere
atmospheric
background-sound
Beek-Ubbergen
Berg-En-Dal
birds
calm
church-bell
field-recording
garden
general-noise
hamlet
hill
Holland
Netherlands
park
soundscape
town
village
white-noise
winter

Type

Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)

Duration

66:15.730

File size

218.2 MB

Sample rate

48000.0 Hz

Bitrate

460 kbps

Channels

Stereo

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Swayambar

2 years, 4 months ago

Amazing

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Toolshed_Cl

9 years, 8 months ago

Extremely good recording, but damn, its really long.

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gamebalance

9 years, 11 months ago

Those bells in the begining are so cool. It has a little distorition tho. But the surround is great

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