please recommand a set of device to listen natural sounds

[b4nt]

Preference and accuracy aren't necessarily the same thing.

That is a very alternate path.

I have recorders and microphones. One may so spend a lot of time outside and enjoy "natural" sounds.

Path ending in playback at home.

 

[Chrispy]

That is a very alternate path.

I have recorders and microphones. One may so spend a lot of time outside and enjoy "natural" sounds.

Path ending in playback at home.

Yes they're not the same path necessarily, that's why I mentioned it. You still need good recording technique to have good results for playback. Accurate or preferential playback is simpler to do.

 

[b4nt]

You still need good recording technique to have good results for playback. Accurate or preferential playback is simpler to do.

It could also be the wrong path? Once you worked out recording techniques, the captured sounds will be nice. You will get disapointed by common audio playback solutions

 

[b4nt]

natural sounds, such as the sounds of a forest, rain, rivers etc..

Go for good detailed headset, and a correct recorder + mic. Shall not cost that much and .you will get hours of fun.

Just care about mic SNR, many have a poor one.

 

[LEIYINAUDIO]

I think you need to concentrate perhaps more on the recording end of things rather than simply playback....or is it others' recordings you are listening to only? Preference and accuracy aren't necessarily the same thing.

I don't do recordings myself, I just listen to other's recordings. And accuracy is what I am looking for. Without being adjusted or tuned by preference.

 

[LEIYINAUDIO]

I like the same sounds. We're lucky, we live in the forest and our birds and insects make for some lovely recordings. Also when the creeks get huge amounts of rain, the recordings are so convincing they truly are like being there.

I use a Tascam DR-05 LPCM recorder to record nature sounds and when played back on my AKG-702s, it's scary real.

I really want to move to somewhere like that one day, this crowded city just hurts my ears.

 

[b4nt]

I don't do recordings myself, I just listen to other's recordings.

A lot of "natural" sounds aren't that much. Many detailed are hissy/noisy not so natural and clean.

I would go (I vwent via) head set, mic and recorder. A path to good sound or for fun like others paths.

 

[LEIYINAUDIO]

Hi, it’s very important for sound to arrive at the correct time, otherwise the 'nature' would just sound like pink noise.

Just grab speakers with wide directivity (Philharmonic BMR maybe?) and use some room correction in the time domain (Dirac).

What if I use headphones? will it be very difficult get this effect?

 

[Chrispy]

I don't do recordings myself, I just listen to other's recordings. And accuracy is what I am looking for. Without being adjusted or tuned by preference.

So how do you know how natural the listening is compared to the recording?

 

[LEIYINAUDIO]

about headphone targets:

for sounds recorded in nature I would try the traditional difuse field target.
harman without bass target will aproximate a flat speaker in a bass treated room
harman oficial target will aproximate a flat speaker in a normal living room

what do we mean by a flat speaker?

 

[b4nt]

I really want to move to somewhere like that one day, this crowded city just hurts my ears.

I think Tascam DR is a good option to begin with.

Go inside your city, listen differently to it. Some brought so back different noises

 

[LEIYINAUDIO]

So how do you know how natural the listening is compared to the recording?

Do you mean if I don't have recordings that suits my demand, then I still wouldn't get the accurate natural sound I want?

 

[b4nt]

what do we mean by a flat speaker?

Check the Tascam DR 40 specifications. Has a mic, and you could add or use other mics whith it.

Add at least a wind screen.

Get any head set. Later, improve headset and mics, you will get improved "natural" or rich sounds.

 

[McFly]

Dolby atmos - 5.x.4 - set up for these kinds of things can be really good. Wouldn't even need a sub probably.

 

[LEIYINAUDIO]

Check the Tascam DR 40 specifications. Has a mic, and you could add or use other mics whith it.

Add at least a wind screen.

Get any head set. Later, improve headset and mics, you will get improved "natural" or rich sounds.

you mean I should record my own sounds for listening?I was intending to listen other's recording and was just looking for a set of neutral device.

 

[JeffS7444]

I'd love to know how to capture really good stereo, multichannel or binaural ambient sound recordings. To date, the 2-channel ambient-sound recordings that I've heard never really sounded convincingly "live", and I find that some binaural recordings seem oddly congested to my ears. The stereo recordings released by RykoDisc ("The Atmosphere Collection") aren't bad though.

 

[b4nt]

Dolby atmos - 5.x.4 - set up for these kinds of things can be really good. Wouldn't even need a sub probably.

For poor quality recordings of frogs in rain forest you will not need Dolby. So far, I didn't found more than noisy stereo records.

But such "sounds" are nice.

 

[b4nt]

you mean I should record my own sounds for listening?I was intending to listen other's recording and was just looking for a set of neutral device.

Go out with a DR40 and listen, record, yes

 

[b4nt]

@LEIYINAUDIO basically, it would be like taking pictures.

You want "natural" sounds? Go outside, pick and listen to what you enjoy. A DR40 will be accurate.

Some have done that and produced an artistic project, based on sounds they recorded so.

And I agree, "outside" is special. Not all pictures or sounds are nice there. You may have to move around, and search, be attentive, which is part of such fun. By the way, it is a different approach of presumed not so nice environments.

 

[jae]

Is it raw/unedited recordings you are listening to? Do you know what microphones are used to record them?