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Violent Thunderstorm Rowfant June 2011

Overall rating (66 ratings)
Simon Spiers

June 29th, 2011

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Sound effects > Natural elements and explosions
Crawley, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Recorded in a field in the village of Crawley Down, this nasty storm resulted from a cold front passing East as the storms moved North East. I was not expecting the thunder to get as close as it did, so the mic amp was turned up a bit to high and as a result some clipping occurred. Recorded on the internal mics, with the original foam wind shield & dead cat. Just before the first close strike, you can hear a click in the right hand channel. This was the over head power line " flashing over" as the lighting struck it.

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field-recording
h4n
heavy-rain
lightning
Lightning
nature
purist
rain
Rowfant
simon-spiers
stereo
storm
strike
thunder
thunderclap
Thunder-clap
thunder-storm
thunderstorm
violent-storm
weather
zoom-h4n

Type

Mp3 (.mp3)

Duration

8:23.838

File size

19.2 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bitrate

320 kbps

Channels

Stereo

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juniorsantt

3 years, 1 month ago

this sound is amazing. graet graet graet

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victimzero

3 years, 3 months ago

great

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foxyphysics

3 years, 8 months ago

Hi Just wanted to say I have used your sound on an animation I made (its on my youtube channel -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xO-nAargw&t=4s) you don't have to watch it !
The sound was exactly what I was looking for. The thunderclap is great! Thank you.
I have credited you in the credits (at the end).

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Ncentofanti13

3 years, 9 months ago

You captured some great sounds, thank you. Using for a school project.

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Mr.TMobile

4 years, 5 months ago

This sound is amazing

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