Thunder Introduces Rain

This sounds as if it were staged by Hollywood, but it actually did happen, I swear! Birds chirp away to set the scene, but a beefy thunder roll intrudes. Soon after, raindrops begin to fall as if on cue.

Theres a little handling noise click in the begining that is easy to crop out if you like. The recording is unedited.

At 1:35 I move the mics closer to the deck so you can hear the splashing. At about At 3:10 I you’ll hear a different timbre as I move away from the rain and under an awning. About 3:45 the rain settles down and the birds start chirping again. Hopefully there are some useful segments in here.

Recorded with a dead cat on a TASCAM DR-05 at 48Khz 24 bit, then compressed with “lame --preset insane --scale 10” to make up for the low gain I used (I was afraid a thunderclap would engage the limiter).

Cheers.