{"id":181,"date":"2016-09-15T23:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2021-10-25T03:15:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T03:15:05","slug":"lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight’s thunder and lightning is awesome. I haven’t heard thunder like this since South America, five years ago. I recorded the the thunder on a Zoom H2N mic<\/a>. I deleted chunks of inactivity to shorten the sequence to three minutes in the open source Audacity<\/a> (a free audio editor).<\/p>\n

The 320kbps mp3 should, ideally, be played back on a subwoofer with frequency sensitivity around 40-80Hz; but there is some minor clipping.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Goalming-Lightning.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

The spectrographic display is shown below and the minor clipping is evident on a couple of the ‘claps’.<\/p>\n

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Spectrogram of lightning audio sequence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m going to get a short checklist together so that next time I can be ready to capture some thunder and lightning in HD Video and hi-def audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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