No microphone comparison here, and nothing particular spectacular.
Just 12 minutes of a moderate thunderstorm over Philadelphia, PA, as
heard three feet outside my fifth floor window in Center City (with
the aid of a boompole).
One of my favorite subjects is nature imposing itself on heavily man-
made environments, and so I really enjoyed Emanuele Costantini's
London Thunderstorm last month. Traffic, car alarms, people yelling
and so one are normally sounds we don't associate with nature, but in
recordings of storms I think they provide a nice context, especially
when the man-made sounds are reactions to the weather. So I guess
this is my contribution to the genre (although in a blind test you
might mix up which recording was made in London, thanks to the sound
of bell tower at the end of mine...)
Recorded with a M-S pair of Sennheieser MKH-800 mics (wide cardioid &
figure-8), a Nagra VI recorder, and a Rycote blimp with a Remote Audio
"Rainman" cover, with the mics on a boompole about three feet outside
a window, about 60 feet above the street, in driving rain and about
10mph wind.
http://www.crypto.com/audio/t-storm-urban-20090802.mp3
-matt
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