Description

Recording rainforest sounds, bird sounds, and cicadas in Northern Thailand

When we lived in Chiangmai, Thailand I drove about an hour to a rural area was there as no traffic or airplane noise. The area I went to was called Takkatan Cave (which wasn’t a very deep cave.)

I looked for a nice open space for my first recording and I put the microphones in the grass and faced them down the valley and up in the air. The equipment I brought with me that day was a Zoom F4 recorder with a pair of DPA 4060 microphones with Rycote Windjammers.

It’s incredible what these omnidirectional microphones can pick up and the noise level is almost non-existent!

After a while, I changed the location and walked deeper down the path and came to the cave. The position to record the sound was nice because I had the mountain in my back and faced down the valley as well.

What you will in hear in this rainforest sound library

– bird sounds

– cicadas sounds

– flies buzzing around the microphones

– mosquitos sounds and many more

– woodworkers in the far background