Here is something worth sharing. The Northwest Soundscapes Project. Andy Marting is a doing a year long jurney around Pacific Northwest collecting massive soundscapes and impulse responses. The project is currently on Kickstarter and there are still 22 days left (as of this writting) to support this project. Asoundeffect.com already did an interview with Andy so be sure to check it out here. More about the project below.
The project
The Northwest Soundscapes Project is a year-long series of field recordings from the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The series is divided into two libraries: Natural Location Open Air Impulse Responses and Natural Soundscapes of the Northwest.
The soundscapes will be long, usable, multi-channel recordings that capture the ambience and life of an area, across three times of day for every location: dawn, mid-day, dusk. As I’ll be camping out to record, many will also include pre-dawn and midnight! Every soundscape with be digitally edited and mastered at 24-bit/ 96khz and 15-30 minutes in length.
From each area I’ll also be recording impulse responses from the most interesting nearby natural and open-air locations. These include forests, open mountainsides, caves, and riverbeds. Delivered as true-multichannel and true-stereo IRs, you’ll be able to use them in any commercial convolution reverb, including Altiverb, Space Designer, Reverberate, and more.
The finished collection will deliver AT LEAST 36 unique natural location open air impulse responses and 72 soundscape recordings. Exhaustive metadata will be included, including GPS location, time of day, and microphone setup.
72+ quad recordings at 15+ minutes each… that’s 18+ hours of new, detailed, diverse multi-channel natural soundscapes delivered in multi-channel and down-mixed stereo formats.
But wait… there’s more! These are highly diverse, living soundscapes we’ll be exploring together. Half the beauty of a recording expedition is finding something new to record. All backers at or above The Big Gulp level will have access to curated highlights of what we discover along the way!
More about The Northwest Soundscapes Project on Kickstarter.