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This is something I was planning to do for some time. Shootout of different contact microphones I own and methods of attaching them to the surface. Since I love recording using contact mics, I have a few of them. They give unique perspective for field recording and results are always unknown, which I find exciting. In my collection I have (so far): – Barcus Berry Plenar Wave System 4000 – JrF C-Series con

This summer I had a great time, spending vacations on an island in Croatia. Being close to the sea and having my recording gear with me, couldn’t end up different than recording it. And the (sea) food out there was absolutely delicious… Water is always very surprising sonically. Walking along the sea shore, which mostly was rocky, I found this great sound of water and air injecting between rocks, splashin

Some time ago I was out in the mountains for a weekend having great time with my family. And my mics too. Being very busy recently, supervising and designing sounds for a feature I didn’t have much free time left, but here is what I managed to record then. It was the first time when I took out my new mics – hydrophones and contact mics made by Jez Riley French. I have Aquarian H2a hydrophone which I liked

At first, sorry for long break on the blog. I had summer vacation first and after returning many things/projects needed my attention. In August, I spent two weeks in beautiful places, having recording kit with me of course. There is no better place to rest for me, than close to the nature. So we decided to go to the mountains. I learn, that being involved sound editor, every year my listening abilities evolves. I am

Recently I was asked to record sounds of an art installation Blackground by Mateusz Chorobski. It’s a black surface of container full of water, which you can walk or lie on. Kind of a black hole in the city center. Because of amount of water in it, it makes many splashy, gurgling sounds which resonates inside the container. The installation was located close to busy road, which made contemplation of it much har

Well it was heavy raining here recently. So heavy, that there are floods in Central Europe now. I was too busy lately to go out and record rain, but today I managed to record it from different perspective.   I attached contact mic to the window and recorded some nice thunders rumble: [Barcus Berry Plenar Wave 4000 | Sound Devices 702]   And since it started raining heavily, I put hydrophone on balcony handr