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Carpathian meadow above the treeline
Ambience field recordist · Bohdan

SOUND WEEKENDS

Nature and city ambiences · recorded across Ukraine

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AMB07SOUND WEEKENDS ChornohoraDawn Chorus 41 files · 6 h 12 min AMB07 Chornohora: Dawn ChorusSound Libraryfrom $80.00 USD AMB06SOUND WEEKENDS Beech ForestRoomtones 34 files · 4 h 40 min AMB06 Beech Forest: RoomtonesSound Libraryfrom $80.00 USD AMB05SOUND WEEKENDS KyivNight Streets 52 files · 5 h 05 min AMB05 Kyiv: Night StreetsSound Libraryfrom $70.00 USD SD04SOUND WEEKENDS Trams and Trolleybuses 180 files · 2 h 30 min SD04 Trams and TrolleybusesSound Library$90.00 USD AMB04SOUND WEEKENDS Black SeaWinter Coast 29 files · 3 h 55 min AMB04 Black Sea: Winter CoastSound Libraryfrom $80.00 USD AMB03SOUND WEEKENDS PolissiaMarsh at Night 38 files · 5 h 20 min AMB03 Polissia: Marsh at NightSound Libraryfrom $70.00 USD SD02SOUND WEEKENDS Snow, Ice and Boots 210 files · 1 h 48 min SD02 Snow, Ice and BootsSound Library$60.00 USD AMB01SOUND WEEKENDS DniproSpring Flood 26 files · 4 h 02 min AMB01 Dnipro: Spring FloodSound Libraryfrom $80.00 USD
Chornohora: Dawn Chorus
Latest release · AMB07

Chornohora: Dawn Chorus

Six mornings on the Chornohora ridge, 1 400–1 800 m, recorded from the same three positions so the takes cut together. The chorus starts at 04:02 and holds for about an hour before the valley wind arrives and ends the session.

Length
6 h 12 min · 41 files · 14.2 GB
Format
192 kHz / 24-bit WAV · UCS + iXML
Rig
MKH 8020 ORTF · MixPre-6 II · Rycote blimp
Recorded
18–23 May · calm, 2–7 °C
Licence
Royalty-free, all media, worldwide

Markers in the master file

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How the files are made

One person, one rig, no assistants and no post-processing beyond a high-pass and a fade. If a take has a plane in it, it does not ship.

Microphones
Sennheiser MKH 8020 pair, ORTF and A-B
Recorder
Sound Devices MixPre-6 II, 32-bit float
Wind
Rycote blimp, full furry, two-layer at over 8 m/s
Delivery
192 kHz / 24-bit WAV, UCS names, iXML metadata
Recording rig on a tripod

Field notes

All notes
Six mornings on Chornohora

What it actually takes to get one clean hour of dawn chorus: three positions, a tent 40 minutes below the ridge, and a lot of discarded takes.

 I don't need the sounds of war

Air raid sirens are in every Ukrainian recording made after 2022. Here is how I decide what to keep, what to archive, and what I will never sell.

 Blimp, ORTF and six hours of wind

A winter of testing windshields on the Black Sea coast, and the honest limit of what a blimp can save.
Bohdan in a spruce forest

About

Hi there. I’m Bohdan and I record ambiences — forests, rivers, empty streets. I started Sound Weekends in 2021, because every weekend I was walking out of the city with a recorder anyway, and the files had to go somewhere.

I work alone, mostly at night and before sunrise, when there is no traffic left to ruin a take. Everything is 192 kHz / 24-bit, tagged with UCS, and comes with the notes I made on location.

Where I am recording next

Free sound pack

Twelve full-length ambiences from the Carpathians and Kyiv, 192 kHz, same metadata as the paid libraries. Sent once, no series of emails afterwards.