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THE SOUND OF A HABITAT IN CONSTANT TENSIONBoom Library
$325.00
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BOOM Library · 3D Surround

Swamps

Two Expeditions, Nineteen Keywords

Frogs at several distances, alligator bellows close and far, shifting insect beds, reed movement, canopy wind and mud underfoot.

1443D files
72Stereo files
58.5 GBBoth together
19Keywords
+And more

Frogs●Alligators●Insect beds●Reeds●Cypress groves●Open wetlands●Mud and squelch●Storms●Dawn and night●& more

Florida, two expeditions over three years24 bit / 96 kHzEULA in Downloads

Two expeditions, three years, and more than 150 hours of raw material behind 144 files.

That figure is the field’s own and it states it twice. What it means for a buyer shows up in the file sizes: 46.8 GB over 144 files is about 333 MB each — the division is computed here — which is the arithmetic of the long-form takes the field says let its layers combine without looping.

At a Glance

  • 144 files, 72 files, 216 together The 3D set, the stereo set, and the combined figure the card marks “incl. Stereo version”. 144 plus 72 is 216, added here
  • 46.8 GB across 144 files About 333 MB per 3D file — the division is computed here. The stereo files come to about 166 MB
  • More than 150 hours recorded The field’s own figure for the raw material, stated twice: once in the account of the shoot and once in the closing note
  • This card has no specification block Files, size and format live only in the description’s two tables. The specification section is absent from this product
  • Nineteen keywords, closed list ALLIGATOR through WIND, listed and stopped. Two of the nineteen are moods rather than subjects — CALM and INTENSE
  • Egrets and ibises are not searchable The prose names both as wading birds it recorded feeding. The keyword list carries BIRD, CROW and OWL; neither egret nor ibis appears in it

Content & Detail

01What Is In Itstated by the supplier▾
3D Surround144 files, 46.8 GB
Stereo72 files, 11.7 GB
Both together216 files, 58.5 GB — the card’s own “incl. Stereo version” figures, and the sum of the rows above, added here
FormatWAV, 24 bit, 96 kHz, Windows and Mac
Track layoutLower layer L, R, Ls, Rs; upper layer Lh, Rh, LSh, RSh — eight channels, and the card capitalises the two surround pairs differently
Recorded withThe vendor’s ORTF 3D array, SCHOEPS microphones and Sound Devices recorders — all three named by the field
DocumentsA EULA, plus metadata PDFs for the surround set and for the stereo set
02What The Field Namesfour environments, and what lives in them▾
Cypress groves and open wetlandsTwo of the four environments the field lists. The other two are soft mud zones and areas of dense wildlife presence
FrogsRecorded at several distances rather than at one, in the field’s own words
AlligatorsMovement, feeding, and territorial bellows close and distant. The field says these were captured in the wild rather than in a controlled environment
Wading birdsEgrets and ibises, named in the prose as recorded feeding. Neither name reaches the keyword list, which carries BIRD, CROW and OWL
Insect beds and reedsThe field calls the insect layers shifting rather than static, and lists reed movement and canopy wind beside them
Dawn, night and stormsThree conditions the wide ambiences cover, named by the field
What it cost to getHumidity shutdowns and fogged optics, in the field’s own account, across two expeditions to Florida over three years
Recorded byMatt Mikkelsen, named by the field as the recordist

A swamp is land and water refusing to settle. The field says as much in its first line, and it is why the takes are long and kept whole — which is how 144 files come to carry 46.8 GB between them, about 333 MB each, computed here.