Often enough, as a recordist, you encounter a sound that just begs to be recorded. But it comes with “extras”, background noise, cars, or most likely some dark background rumble we don’t even hear ourselves.

Imagine this bird (not the same as in the recording, granted.

For a while now, I have presented different audio clips, with or without visual connection. When you do field recording, you end up with a lot of awesome sounds. Sometimes you would like that sound to be the sound track of some video.

So the first thought is to simply overlay the sound to a silent video track and present it as an old-fashioned slide show.

Well, relaxing for as much as possible on a beach in Canada in winter. While the swimming attire had to wait at home, the weather was nice enough to present some waves on a beach with rocks. Every field recordist has something like that in his/her collection, right?

For me, this was an opportunity to try out something new.

Gear Acquisition Syndrome, an ailment all photographers and sound recordists suffer from. At least once they admit they have it, that is. It’s very common and hard to avoid. After all, we all want the best in both photography and in recording gear.

When I took up field recording (at last) a few years ago, I didn’t think this would be an expensive hobby.