A blissfully quiet recording featuring the soft, delicate smacking of waves on shoreline boulders at Kinkaid Lake in southern Illinois. As I recorded this, on January 1 2026, I was a bit concerned because of the very low levels shown on my Zoom F3 recorder. The weather -- for the time of year -- was great. Mostly sunny skies, 48 degrees Fahrenheit and hardly any wind at all.
However, upon getting home, putting on some good headphones, I treated to the fantastic soundscape. A natural soundscape with hardly any noise from my gear; nothing but the slow drip of the waves breaking over the boulders.
Before I posted this, I did raise the overall level by 3 dbs, but that is all I did. The way I figure, there are many creatives and sound experts who are much better at massaging the audio in their DAW than I am.
Even though the recording is very soft, I realized it was because I was just at the perfect place, at the perfect time where no man-made noises were audible. Despite the low volume, I dared not to raise it much higher for fear of bringing up something from the F3's noise floor that is well below the threshold of human hearing.
This recording also has to point out the great quality of the F3's preamps!
Enjoy!
Recorded on January 1 2026 at Kinkaid Lake in southern Illinois.
Equipment: Recorder- Zoom F3
Microphone- AudioTechnica BP4025 Stereo microphone inside a blimp
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
3:30.305
File size
53.1 MB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bit depth
24 bit
Channels
Stereo
Comments
15 hours, 20 minutes ago
Thank you very much Klankbeeld. It was quite an arduous hike to get to the record site, but worth it.
22 hours, 1 minute ago
What a brilliant and subtle sound recording. Very well done. Thank you.
5*
