Remote solitude — High Dartmoor tumbling stream, with background skylarks

Black Ridge Brook (next to the hill known as Little Kneeset) on remotest high Dartmoor, heard from near the ground, tumbling over minor rocks. Recording made concurrently with the skylarks recording forming second half of https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/838748/ . Here we hear the tumbling water almost directly, but still partially shielded from it to tame its higher frequencies so that the background skylarks and the odd meadow pipit can still be faintly heard above the stream sound.

This was a subsidiary recording, made while I was achieving my earnest primary objective, of getting recordings of skylarks on remotest Dartmoor.

The faint background skylark sound teasingly comes and goes, while the foreground stream gives continuity. As well as skylarks, the occasional distant meadow pipit can be heard.

This session was on 20 April 2013, in a remote part of the northern section of Dartmoor, Devon, UK.

Advisory
I recommend not to turn the volume below a sensible normal listening level, unless one is happy to miss the faint intermittent skylarks sound, which gives the water sound a special 'remoteness frisson'.

I'm aware that the stereo widening has resulted in a certain phasiness and phase cancellaton points for reproduction from some speaker systems. However, such effects don't affect listening with headphones.

This photo taken during the recording, looking downstream. The recorder was somewhere among or close to the sparse patch of stream-side rushes just a little ahead; I can't remember how I managed to get the recorder so sheltered from the stiff breeze just there.

During this recording session: expansive remoteness! The Black Ridge Brook is notionally visible at far left, but in reality all you can see is its rather winding bed, for along that stretch it's slightly sunken into the layer of peat. Hence its sounding so muffled in the pair of skylarks recordings made in the same session.

The geolocation is given imprecisely, because this location is blurred-out on the geolocation map, no doubt because it's within an Army training area, and also the satellite view is very difficult to identify many of the land features on that mostly blanket-bog terrain.

Techie stuff:
The recorder was Sony PCM-M10, with Røde DeadKitten furry windshield, and I'd placed it on Hama mini tripod, which meant it was only a very few inches above the ground.

Initial post-recording processing was to apply an EQ curve to compensate for muffling from the furry windshields, and, much more recently, to apply 160% widening of the stereo soundstage, using A1 Stereo Control, followed by an EQ tilt away from the treble to compensate for the treble boost resulting from the stereo widening.

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