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Our field recording gear

Every Nature Sounds Therapy recording is made outdoors by a father and son with this kit. Sound goes through a Zoom F3 32-bit float recorder with a Sennheiser MKE 600 or a RØDE NT1 in our own wind protection; video is filmed on a Panasonic Lumix S5 or an Insta360 Pro for 360° VR. Power for all-night takes comes from an EcoFlow Delta 2 charged from our campervan. No music, no AI — just the place as it sounded.

Sound

• Zoom F3 32-bit float field recorder — 32-bit float field recorder — every recording goes through it
• Sennheiser MKE 600 shotgun microphone — shotgun microphone for outdoor ambience
• RØDE NT1 large-diaphragm condenser microphone — large-diaphragm condenser microphone for quiet scenes
• RØDE Blimp windshield — wind protection for the shotgun microphone
• Saramonic blimp windshield — second wind protection set
• RØDE XLR cables (5 m and 1 m) — microphone cables
• Custom-built NT1 mounts and blimps — our own mounts and wind protection for the RØDE NT1, made for long outdoor nights
• Zoom H1n backup recorder — small backup recorder for special tasks
• 7Ryms and RØDE wireless microphones — wireless mics for behind-the-scenes and voice
• Sennheiser HD 280 Pro closed headphones — closed headphones for monitoring in the field

Camera

• Panasonic Lumix S5 full-frame camera — main camera for regular videos
• Insta360 Ace Pro 2 action camera — small action camera for close-up and second angles
• Haida 2-in-1 polarizer + ND filter — polarizer and ND filter for long daylight takes

360° VR

• Insta360 Pro 360° VR camera — 360° VR camera
• 1 TB and 2 TB SSDs — recording straight from the Insta360 Pro

Tripods

• KFZ tripods (1.8 m, 1.5 m and 40 cm) — tripods for camera and microphones — tall for open fields, low for ground-level sound

Getting there

• Off-road modified Suzuki Vitara — gets us and the kit into rough terrain where the van can't go
• Garmin GPS units — finding quiet spots far from roads and marking every recording location
• Printed paper maps — planning routes where there is no signal — and they never run out of battery

Power in the field

• EcoFlow Delta 2, power banks and a generator — power for all-night recording far from sockets
• Campervan with a 1000 W DC charger — our mobile base — charges the Delta 2 straight from the van battery
• Portable solar panels — topping up batteries in the field during multi-day trips

Camp and clothing

• Hammocks — sleeping near the recorder — quiet, off the ground, no tent noise
• Jetboil stove — hot food and coffee at night without leaving the spot
• Salewa boots and outdoor clothing — long days and cold nights in the mountains and forests
• Texar fleeces and warm layers — staying still and quiet for hours while the recorder runs

Studio

• Two field laptops — checking and backing up recordings on location
• A stack of SD cards — camera and recorder media — never enough of them
• PC with NVIDIA RTX 5070 and Intel Core i5-14600 — editing, colour and long-file processing
• Synology DS920+ with 4 × 14 TB — archive of every original recording

…and a pile of cables, clamps, batteries and small things we only remember when they are missing.

The most important piece of kit

A smile and a conversation. Many of our best places are on someone's land — a farm, a meadow, a forest edge. We knock, explain what we do, and ask if we can stay for a few days. Most people say yes, and some of them end up listening to the recording later.