phonography.org.uk

All these recordings have been made at various airshows and are presented as recorded. If you would like copies of these recordings for your own use, please contact me and I will be happy to help out.

Most of my aircraft recordings can be found at field-recording.org.uk. I've left a few of my most popular recordings here.

Aircraft are difficult to record well as they tend to move quickly and not always in a way that works well with mic placement. I tend to leave around 18 - 20dB headroom if I'm expecting anything to fly close and up to 25 db if there's a prospect of anything with a jet engine. With aircraft and places I know well I usually shift around mic placement to get different recording dynamics. For places I don't know or new aircraft I'll make a call first then leave it that way and see what happens. I guess this is quite like how people that record birdsong will work.