That's all she wrote? Just one huge boom and nothing else? Apparently so. This happened at 12:54 local time, as I was preparing my lunch. Sound captured from microphones in my back garden.
#thunder #Boom #Weather #WeatherSounds #London
It may rain and boom more later, you can listen live if you like that sort of thing, at http://2.onj.me/outside.m3u
@FreakyFwoof What does your setup look like? Like, which mics, how do you route it into your house and stream it, presumably via icecast?
@ToniBarth 2x BehringerXM8500 on a stereo bar, Raspberry Pi4 4GB in the living room which is resting on the window ledge inside the house. The XLR cables come through the bottom of the window and I just slammed and locked the window on the cables. They're thick enough to stand it, so don't care if they're a little kinked. They've been out there constantly in changing weather since 2016 and still working. I think I've changed the cables a couple of times since that time, but not the mics.
@ToniBarth Oh, and a Focusrite first-gen 2I2.
@FreakyFwoof And no covering or wind/rain protection for the mics, or are they located in a position where rain/wind will just barely affect them, like under a roof or something?
@ToniBarth Oh no, we have no back porch or anything like that. I put very crappy windscreens over them which doesn't help too much, but if you listen during particularly heavy rain, you'll hear musical micstand madness as the rain plinks off of the elastic bands around the shockmounts.
@FreakyFwoof OK so the mics are exposed to water in rain rather regularly? I'm always particularly careful to prevent that from happening, although i'm usually fiddling around with much more expensive mics. I guess destroying $20 mics in pouring rain is much less critical than $500 mics or pricier. I just don't know how they stand water, especially in the case that it gets into the sockets of the XLR plugs.
@ToniBarth They buzz occasionally when wet, but dry themselves out overtime. And these are very purposefully cheap mics for that reason. Yep.