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The following recordings
are submitted by just a few of our many skilled customers. Please check
out their links, which will allow you to explore their work in more
detail. Do you have an interesting recording? We'd
love to hear it! Please contact
us; we will sincerely appreciate your contributions! Make
sure to provide information so that we can offer proper credits.
Simon Forrester, Documentary Sound Recordist Samples from the high arctic Recordings use the H2a-XLR hydrophone Excerpted from Simon's e-mail to Aquarian Audio: "This file comes from a summer recording last year on the edge of the sea ice about 15 miles off shore from the most Northerly inhabited indigenous settlement in the world - Siorapaluk. I was trying to record Narwhals when two bergs smashed into one another, they must have been several miles away as there were none in sight, it's interesting to hear how the Narwhal and seal calls increase straight afterwards." "The audio and picture were from Quaanaaq in the far North of Greenland for a BBC/Discovery series called Human Planet..." "I think the photo is of me trying to chip out a hole in the sea ice along a fault line with my ice axe so that I could bury the mic and record one plate rubbing against the other, I think it was around -50C that day and, as you can hear from the recording, your little mic not only survived the extreme temperatures but also managed to emerge unscathed despite the large pressures that must have been exerted as the two plates rubbed against it, a testament indeed to the quality of its manufacture." Marlin Ledin, Apostle Islands Bike Expedition Ice recordings from Lake Superior Recording uses the H2a hydrophone Visit the Ice Sounds Page for recording samples, "The Lake Drums", "Crackling Plates", and "Bubbling Ice Cave". Nathan Moody, Noise Jockey Blog Sound Effects, Phonography Recording uses the H2a-XLR hydrophone Check out the blog for most recent entries. Underwater Bowed Metal, Underwater Finger Cymbals, Hydrophonic Cocktail, Sump Pump, Magnet + Hydrophone Glenn Edney, OceanBlue Adventures Humpback vocalizations from the Kingdom of Tonga Recording uses the H2a hydrophone and the UPA-1 preamp with an inexpensive digital voice recorder Time 2:15, as submitted by the author. Compare these vocalizations to others on this page that are recorded in the northern hemisphere. Capt. Gene Flipse, Conscious Breath Adventures Humpback vocalizations from the Silver Bank, Dominican Republic Recording uses the H2a-XLR hydrophone The sample below is made from four clips of Gene's original recordings. Listen to several more of Captain Gene's recordings from the Silver Bank on SoundCloud here. Diane Okonek, Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game sanctuary manager Round Island, Walrus Islands State Game Sanctuary with support from International Polar Year and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Wildlife Day By Day program Male walrus vocalizations from Round Island, Alaska Recording uses the H2a hydrophone The sample below is made from several clips of Diane's original recording. Graham Nystrom, Graham Sound Orca vocalizations from Haro Straits, Washington Recording uses the H2a-XLR hydrophone Three clips of orca whale vocalizations in our home waters of Haro Straits. Vessel noise in background Robb Nichols, Aquarian Audio Body Sounds: hydrophone as stethoscope Recording uses the H2a-XLR hydrophone After several inquiries, we decided to make a short demonstration recording where the hydrophone is used as an electronic stethoscope. Includes heart (subwoofer or good headphones required), breathing, and abdominal sounds. Charles Stankievech: The DEW Project, Dawson City, Yukon Territory Link to live stream from the Yukon and Klondike Rivers A remote transmission station housed in a geodesic dome on the Yukon and Klondike Rivers continually records and transmits the sounds of the rivers flowing and the ice shifting using hydrophones embedded in and under the ice. A solar powered system, the installation runs 24 hours a day with a computer controlled LED lighting system generating a radiating beacon in the snowfield. Spirit Of The West Adventures Orca whale video soundtrack Recorded through the mic on a standard camcorder. Whale vocalizations are played though the Honeytone amplified speaker, using a H1a hydrophone This is not a high-fidelity recording, but is a great demonstration of the inexpensive Honeytone speaker. See the setup and link to the video at YouTube though the Images page Robb Nichols, Aquarian Audio Miscellaneous Recording uses the H2a hydrophone The following recordings were made with little to no effort in the recording setup, using an inexpensive Zoom H2 recorder. This humpback whale recording was captured while demonstrating a hydrophone to Trilogy Excursions of HI while on a very pleasurable scheduled tour to Lana'i in February of 2009. The recorder was being used as a preamp and patched into the stereo system for customers to hear. This recording of reef sounds with humpback whales was made from a kayak while just offshore of Kihei, HI. The whales were approximately two miles offshore. This recording of frogs was made in the pond behind our shop with my five-year-old son. We just put some fresh rechargeable batteries in the recorder and let it record overnight. Play this 30-second clip over again 750 times and you'll pretty much have experienced the whole recording (I think; I didn't listen to the whole thing.) Our UPA-1 preamp was included in the recording setup. Christopher Bradbury Miscellaneous Phonography Recording of Chris' cat with with the H2a and CMadp, layered over track recorded with SP earbud mics Mixed recordings of a clock and heartbeat, each made with the H2a and CMadp H2a buried in the sand on the WA coast Julianna Snapper Five Fathoms Deep My Father Lies is a multi-site underwater opera staged across the globe (video link to YouTube) Recording uses two H2a-XLRs Tomoko Sauvage Music created from water droplets and other percussion techniques in ceramic bowls Making of a rainbow (audio link to Archive.org) Waterdrop performence (video link to YouTube) Recording uses multiple H2a-XLRs Lobster Divers in Honduras Recorded for Marketplace, American Public Radio Claudine LoMonaco, Producer, Homeland Productions Recording uses the H2a-XLR The following MP3 files are just for fun. They are a sampling of recordings that customers have submitted over the years. All are recorded using now-obsolete hydrophone designs. We hope you'll consider sharing your newer recordings here! Humpback feeding calls, Alaska Sea Adventures, 753K Catfish in the Amazon, Mac Given, 68K Hippos in the Lunga River, Glen Feldhake, 545K Humpback Whales in Hawaii, Kent Noonan, 496K Orca Whales in Washington, Greg Milano, 1.4M Pickeral Frogs in the Amazon, Mac Given, 117K Rough-Toothed Dolphin in tank, Michael Hunt, 345K |
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