AMB29 Hoot

DESCRIPTION: 

• In Hoot, get an eerie collection of North American owl ambiences. Hear lonesome Great Horned Owls calling on dark nights in the desert and cute bouncing ball calls of Western-screech Owl duets. Hear the haunting hoots of the arctic as the rising calls of Boreal Owls float through boreal forests. Hear the resonant calls of Barred Owls in the old growth of the Pacific Northwest and the almost-silent whooshes of Burrowing Owls soaring through the big sky of West Texas.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of sounds from a majestic night time hunter. This library grew out of hundreds of hours of nature recordings and a case of mistaken identity. Lucky for my mics the owl realized my furry blimp wasn’t a tasty rabbit at the last second! I hope you enjoy these sounds. Thanks for listening. 

KEY FEATURES:

• Lonesome hoots of Great Horned Owls
• Cute Western-screech Owl "bouncing ball call" duets
• Eerie hoots of Boreal Owls
• Haunting flute-like hoots of Northern Saw-whet Owls
• Boreal and Northern Saw-whet owls in the Alaskan arctic
• Great Horned, Burrowing, and Western-screech Owls in West Texas
• Barred Owls in the Pacific Northwest
• This library pulls selections from HDA2: Active Nature, HDA3: Quiet Nature, HDA4: Coyotes, HDA5: Crickets, PN: Quiet Nature, Great Lakes: Quiet Nature, Alaska: Active Nature, Alaska: Quiet Nature, and Alaska: Rain. If you are a Complete Collection owner (starting with v46), you already own all the sounds in this library.
• If you already own some of these libraries, contact me for an upgrade discount.
• Included wildlife: North American Owls – Boreal owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Great Horned Owl, Western-screech Owl, Barred Owl, Burrowing Owl, Bats

FILE LIST:

• Click "View larger version" in the bottom right corner of the File List below to open in a new tab for easier viewing. This works best on a desktop computer. 
• View spectrograms for each track, search, and filter in the Airtable spreadsheet. 

96 kHz and 192 kHz: 

• I always record and archive at 192 kHz for conservation and preservation purposes.
• However, all sounds are delivered in 96 kHz unless there was useful frequency content present above 48 kHz. Then the audio is delivered at 192 kHz. 
• 5 of 56 tracks are included at 192 kHz. Bats are the only wildlife above 48 kHz in these recordings.

FILE TYPES:

• Stereo Only: recorded in Stereo (L/R) – these recordings do not include a Quad version
• Stereo: Double Mid/Side decoded to Stereo (L/R) or ORTF (L/R)
• Quad: Double Mid/Side decoded to Quad (L/R/Ls/Rs)

LIBRARY INFO: 

GEAR USED:

• Sennheiser MKH8040 pair in ORTF
• Sennheiser MKH8040 pair and MKH30 in Double Mid/Side
• Sound Devices 702
• Sound Devices MixPre-6
• Rycote ORTF and Mid/Side Blimps
• Cinela Pianissimo Double Mid/Side Blimp