Moderate Thunderstorm - Rain on Concrete - 10 mins - Redone

Reprocessed the same recording I posted last year. Uploaded this as .wav - other post (here: http://freesound.org/people/naturenutt/sounds/277243/) was .mp3 - tried to make this version smoother & less brittle. Think I still need something for diffusers to break up the echoey-ness of the front porch, but that's another rainstorm. This is also a moderate thunderstorm, not real gentle, but not a tornado storm either - plenty of thunder & rain.

Thunderstorm and rain on concrete recorded from my front porch in May 2015. Just a touch of wind blowing the rain around, but not much. Used a Marantz PMD661 recorder and Sony ECM MS957 stereo mic. Recorded at 24/96 originally, stepped down to 16/44. It's 10 mins 34 secs long. Download sounds better than playback above - no anti-aliasing, and all freq's above 11kHz are there.

Technical Info:

I pitch-shifted the thunder slightly higher into the low mids, and pitch-shifted the rain somewhat lower into the high-mids. (I used a free little plugin called DtBlkFx to do all the pitch-shifting - you can find it here: http://rekkerd.org/dtblkfx/) Each of those was reblended faintly into the background under the original recording and everything re-EQ'd. This gave the thunder a little more definition in the low mids and the lower rain drops seemed to smooth out the brittle ones. The thing about pitch-shifting and reblending is that the ear finds the half-way spot between two tones and that's what it hears as the pitch. Just another trick to handle off-pitch singers, or brittle nature sounds in this case. Works for both.