Ohio

I had high hopes for the soundscape you’re about to hear in the YouTube video below. Off and on for several years, I have been recording the sound of exploding fireworks, both up close and distant. Examples of my up-close work can be heard and purchased via my blog post entitled Commercial Fireworks: Up Close and Loud. As you’ll hear, I’m still working on the distant fireworks library. On Independence Day, or rather, that night, I convinced my wife to drive with me down poorly-lit gravel roads to listen to fireworks with a gorgeous view. The view in this case is from the gorge overlook at Mohican State Park.… Read More

Over Memorial Day weekend 2025, my wife and I stayed in the guest house at the Murphin Ridge Inn, a bed and breakfast 13 miles due north of the Ohio River as the crow flies. Below, hear the dawn chorus … Read More

Capturing the underwater sound of Rocky Creek before it crests over Greenwood Falls in Greenwood Village of Sagamore Hills, Ohio on Friday, April 4, 2025. A pair of Aquarian H2A hydrphones were used, dropped into pools both large and small, deep and shallow, that form around eroding Berea Sandstone layers. … Read More

Vintage Combine sound effects library features high-quality stereo sounds of a fully operational 1970s-era John Deere 4400 combine harvester.… Read More

Listen to the distant sound of a turn-of-the-last-century steam train whistle reverberating through the valleys of Ohio’s Amish Country during the Fall Steam Festival at the Age of Steam Roundhouse on Saturday, September 29, 2024.… Read More