Atmospheric recordings capture desolate urban environments and natural wind sound effects, featuring whistling steel wires, resonating pipes, and gentle marina ambiences recorded during peaceful nighttime hours.
You get empty streets and alleys, office exteriors and a marina. You get steel wires that whistle and whip in the wind, pipes and cavities resonating in the gusts.
You get ambiences and a few specifics. I have tried to strike the balance between variety and nuance, to give you sound pros something to build a scene around. In that sense, this really is a construction kit of sorts. You will hear very little human activity – other than distant traffic.
I recorded mostly at night and in large, undisturbed areas.
In some of the recordings, you will hear wind buffeting – more of the windscreen than the microphones – but there is some. In some cases, I opted to tame the most violent events, but others I left in. In many cases, wind noise reduction simply took away too much of the forcefulness, so I left it as is.
Urban Winds II is 65 minutes/2 GB of medium and high-wind sounds in 29 separate files – recorded in 24bit/96kHz M/S stereo (decoded to X/Y stereo and mono), using Sennheiser MKH microphones.
Some specifics appear in both mono and stereo versions, where the stereo version is X/Y derived from the M/S source files and the mono versions are simply the Mid channel. I did this because most people seem to prefer X/Y files for post-work, rather than M/S – but a down-mix of X/Y to mono would be inferior to using the original Mid-mic signal. All sounds were captured in Aarhus, Denmark.
Some specifics appear in both mono and stereo versions, where the stereo version is X/Y derived from the M/S source files and the mono versions are simply the Mid channel. I did this because most people seem to prefer X/Y files for post-work, rather than M/S – but a down-mix of X/Y to mono would be inferior to using the original Mid-mic signal. All sounds were captured in Aarhus, Denmark.
