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  • Soundscape: Windy Evening

    Last Sunday it was a very windy evening in Southern England, with gusts up to 65 km/h. I used three different setups of microphones and placed them inside an old attic. Each one of them pointing at different corners. This is what I came out with: First minute: recorded with a pair of Sennheiser 8040…

  • The Art Of Field Recording While Travelling The World

    The guys from WeSoundEffects kindly asked me to write an article about field recording while doing tourism. Capturing sounds while travelling is one of my favourite ways of discovering new cultures. Each country and each community has its own unique sound, mixed by its people, its language, its architecture, its roads, its fauna, its weather.…

  • Interview with Paul Virostek, from Creative Field Recording

    I was recently interviewed by Paul Virostek, from Creative Field Recording, for his new series of Field Recording and Gear. We talked about what gear I use when I travel, considering size and weight without compromising quality, as well as focusing on the sonic differences between countries and cities. You can read the full interview…

  • Soundscape: Doi Suthep-Pui National Park (Thailand)

    I recorded this soundscape in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park (Thailand) with my trusty Sony D100. As you can hear, Thai cicadas are chirping very very loud. To be honest, I never heard them that loud. By having a look at the spectrogram, they are able to produce this buzz at around 10-12 kHz. Isn’t that amazing?…

  • Recording Cicadas: Tips and Tricks

      This week I released our latest SFX Library, Cicadas. I was born in Spain, and since I was a kid, I always heard cicadas around me during summer time. My hometown is Cordoba, the warmest city in Spain. This is the climate data for Córdoba (1981-2010).     But a few years ago I moved…