In the Amazon Rainforest Quad & Ambisonics
Going deep in the forest to find silence and purity… A little muddy stream… Crossing a Walking tree along the way…
Author: Stephane Fufa
Capturing Water Streams at Cayambe-Coca
Some beautiful water streams out there near El Reventador
El Reventador in Cayambe-Coca Parc
Exploring this breathtaking scenery! In between the Andes mountain chain/ volcanos and the Amazon forest. I have been hiking the mountain a little. I have been recording some interesting ambiences (when cars were not passing by the nearby highway :-)). Read More …
Stealth Recording in the town of Baños
I wandered around the streets of this small touristy village. It is a really interesting village that is threatened at all time by the neighbor volcano Tungurahua. I think I walked at least 7 times the same streets throughout all Read More …
Troubles with NT45-O capsule
It’s been few days I have troubles with my newly purchased NT-45-O microphone capsules from Rode. I recently bought 2 of them in an attempt to extend the possibilities with the NT5, and have them capture omnidirectionally. While one of Read More …
High Hike around Laguna Cuicocha
This morning I got a taxi ride until the entrance of the reserve at Laguna Cuicocha. I hiked up on the edge of the mountain encircling the Laguna. What a wonderful scenary! From up here it is possible to see Read More …
my gear setup prior to Ecuador trip
Before taking off to Ecuador , I carefully chose and packed my equipment and stuff. Here is a picture of those. Briefly, I brought 2x Sennheiser MKH8090 for ambiences along with 2x Rode NT5 with capsule NT45A. I packed a Read More …
From the village rooftop
At noon, I took a little time spent on top of the roof of the hostel at Cotacachi. Allowing to capture compelling and authentic Ecuadorian ambience. From distance I can hear announcing trucks, those truck that have speakers and navigate Read More …
This Morning Dawn Chorus in an Andean farm near Cotacachi Village
Early this morning I got waken up by incredibly wonderful bird songs along with some roosters around the farm. I found it so a magical time, I was just opening my ears to the world and laid down still just Read More …
Recording Roomtones of a Traditional Andean Housing
I have been blessed to find a traditional quechua family near the town of Cotacachi in the Andes of Ecuador. They were so nice, prepared meals and having a bed in their farm. I could record great room tones of Read More …
Funny Guy however not really Sounding
A post shared by Stéphane Fufa – Sound Explorer (@fufa_soundexplorer) on Apr 8, 2017 at 9:59am PDT I have been across an Alpaca farm. These are funny animals although they aren’t really noisy. I couldn’t capture any particular sound as Read More …
unfortunate surprise with the recorder
I got some unfortunate bad surprise when I powered on my Sound Devices 788t today. Neither the internal hard drive nor the compact Flash card was recognized. After few seconds, a screen showed “updating Firewire/USB software”. This really strange behaviour Read More …
Recording the Pacific Ocean on Sunset
Today is a little update from the coast on Canoa, Ecuador. I set up my gear gazing at the sea under the sunset. What a wonderful postcard moment. A magical time where mother nature give us its harmonious show! One Read More …
Canoa, Ecuadorian Fishing Village bound to the Power of Nature
During the last three days, I have meandered through this incredible little fishing town. Situated on the pacific coast of Ecuador, the scenery with its extra-stretched beach of many kilometers and an omnipresent sun makes it a place from heaven where Read More …
The Fountains – 1 year
One year ago I started the project ‘100 fountains‘. At that time I had already recorded a profusion of sounds throughout the city of Montreal. I was about to release a collection of ambiences from Montreal. As I re-listened the tracks Read More …