20071104.forest.00.mp3

A 20-odd minutes long mid-side stereo sample of pine forest ambiance, with birds singing, wind on trees, some insects buzzing, gunshots; at 3min you can hear a metal gate open/close and a car rolling on dirt road; at 9:30 a cyclist passes by. Please note: I wanted a long sample, but it is simply impossible in the area where I live to record more than 5 min without getting motor vehicles (even in this forest, at 7 AM, and on Sunday). I mean this is an edit of the original, from which I removed four extremely noisy cars. Didn't make any effort to hide the cuts but one must pay close attention to notice. The 24 bit original was mixed to left/right stereo with Voxengo free VST plugin and downsampled to 16 bit in Audition. Sennheiser MKH60 + MKH30 into Shure FP24, to Edirol R09. Uncompressed sample available upon request