A recording of one of my favourite sounds - The Amesbury Buzzbox (my naming) - This is some sort of telecommunications box and it makes a very loud buzz; has done for years. As the recording starts you can hear a lady who passed by in a mobility scooter asking if I'm from the council - she finds the buzzing scary and says it's about time someone looked at it. I said I was recording it off my own back. I assume she thinks I'm recording it to complain about the noise it's making, but in truth I love it and wouldn't want it stopped. The first few seconds are just the X/Y mics on the Zoom H6 which is on a stand on the pavement with some wind shielding, but I've also got a LOM Geofon attached to the box itself and this recording is a mix of the XY tracks and the Geofon. The seismic microphone picks up a lot more of the variation in the buzz, and the X/Y mics pick up the passing traffic as well. I've boosted some of the lower range before exporting to mp3 for Tumblr.
