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Recording fire crackling sounds in Costa Rica

While staying in an Airbnb outside of Samara, Costa Rica our hosts explained to us their peculiar upstairs tenant. They clearly didn’t trust his behavior or his newest venture of creating an authentic Costa Rican grounds with native floral.

In order to begin his tropical dream garden, he needed to burn everything in the acre space he purchased. He did this slowly day by day. One morning I saw him putting tons of little wooden sticks around a tree stump and asked him when is he going to fire them up? “In the next 30 minutes” he said! He prepared the area around the fireplace with a huge water hose and I got my recording gear because I had to take this opportunity to get fire crackling sounds!

I used my DPA 4060 with the Rycote Windjammer (which I needed to be very careful and not get too close or they would set on fire) and Zoom H6. I walked several times around the fire capturing crackling sounds effects.

What you will hear…

You can listen to fire crackling, wind blowing through the wood, snapping sounds, fantastic whistling of the wood (3:17), and a horse neigh! We hope you enjoy this royalty-free bonfire sounds and that you can use it in your future projects!