Some very gentle relaxing sea waves breaking on to the pebbles and shingle at Lulworth Cove on Dorset’s Jurassic coastline in the UK. The shape of the cove was caused by Wave Diffraction – see the Wiki Article here.
Lulworth Cove 2025. St Alban’s Head in the distance looking east. Photograph by Jonathan Slatter
Lulworth Sea Waves recorded July 2025
The waves were recorded early in the morning, on the pebble and shingle beach inside the cove, on a calm sunny day using a matched stereo pair of Clippy EM172s and an Olympus LS-14 portable recorder. Editing and post production carried out in Reaper. You can download the waves from the audio player for private use only. The audio is Copyright Jonathan Slatter 2025. For commercial use of any kind please download from the Pond5 site here.
EM172 Pip Mics with mini windjammers and Olympus LS-14 recorder
Durdle DoorDurdle Door with Portland in the distanceMan O War CovePIP Mics in action on a dummy’s headLulworth Cove, Dorset UKJonathan Slatter recording with PIP mics at Portland Bill Lighthouse
Lulworth Cove, Man o War Cove, Durdle Door and Portland Bill Lighthouse
A little trip down memory lane of some of the recording equipment I have used and people I have worked with over the years…
Arion Metal Master Guitar PedalAvalon 737sp preamp and compressor plus Universal Audio 1176U87 microphone and Avalon 737 preamp in the booth at Jonathan Slatter Music StudioMackie D8B Digital Mixing DeskMackie D8B Digital Mixing DeskHHB Professional Portadat PDR-1000 Portable DAT …Jonathan Slatter in the control room early 2000s with Mackie D8B1993 and we go digital with SADiE£7k+ for a 2 in 4 out DAW in 1993!1JS in studio in Devizes circa 1995, TSR8 8 track to the right, editing the Akai S1000 samplerMy studio in parents’ house 1989 with the amazing Korg M1, Yamaha Cassette 4 track and Tascam 32 1/4″Pic for local paper around 1990 with Tascam 32 and TSR8 8 track on the piano in front of meVoice artist Kate Parker recording voiceover in the boothKorg O1W Expansion Sound CardsPanasonic UVW1800 Betacam SP Player RecorderSADiE 24/96 8in8out Digital Audio Workstation with Exabyte tape backup and CD-WriterTascam DA38 8 track digital multitrackerTascam DA88Tascam 848 Remote Control for DA38/DA88Tascam 32 1/4″ tape recorderVoiceover booth with Neumann U87 and Avalon 737spNatalie editing with SADiE in Devizes top floor studio circa 1996The Lomo 19A19 Microphone from RussiaSoundcraft Folio Mixer for routing ISDNBeyer 201 DynamicThe DT100 Headphones by BeyerHuey Morgan in the studioLaura working on radio ads circa 2006 with a Mackie analogue mixer, Yamaha NS10Ms and the Prima 120 ISDN Codec & Remote dialler which did about 25 years service. Her Talkback mic is an AKG451. Oh and a fax machine…
Making Sound Effects
Aside from music and radio production I’ve always really enjoyed recording sound effects, especially nature sounds – and even more especially the sound of the sea. This was in many ways because in the early days, when I was working from my parents’ house, I had no money, so when making radio adverts, if I needed sound effects I would go out and record them myself rather than buy them. In those days I recorded with my one and only microphone – the amazing Beyer 201 dynamic and a Tascam 32 1/4″ tape machine. So where I could to record was really restricted to the length of the microphone cable…
Beyer 201 Dynamic Microphone
In 1994 I purchased a Sony stereo mic and a Teac Portable Dat Recorder, the DA-P20, which I took to the US to record the ‘Sounds of New York City’ in September of that year.
if you can’t close the Media Pool or other panes in Davinci Resolve Studio – trying going to Settings/Preferences and under the USER tab, de-select: ‘Use optimised UI layouts for vertical video’
HD Man typing on laptop computer– FREE TO DOWNLOAD
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4K Pedne Vounder Beach Cornwall UK – FREE TO DOWNLOAD
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4K Ocean Waves Sandy Beach Footage – FREE TO DOWNLOAD
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4K Footage of ocean waves breaking onto the sandy beach at Sandbanks, Poole UK at sunset. Includes pro recorded sound. £FREE! Available instantly. 4K mov H.264 440.6MB Please consider a cup of coffee to cover server costs x.
New for 2024 – Piano solo and Viola pieces composed and recorded by Jonathan Slatter.
Lost Soul
As I get older I seem to enjoy the mid tones of the viola more, compared to playing the violin. Seems to work very well with piano. The piano here is a 1930s Berlin built Steck, that I found in an auction house in Bath and picked it up for £100! I have never seen another piano in this amazing condition in a regular domestic auction.
Lost Soul
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How to tighten the timing of audio in the Reaper DAW. Using stretch markers to improve the playing and timing of a recorded piano piece.
Recorded on a 1930s Berlin built Steck upright piano to a click track. By adding Reaper stretch markers to the main transients you can move parts of the recorded audio to tighten up the timing to the grid or beat.
To manually add a stretch marker place the cursor where you want it to go on the wave form within an item – usually just before transient (highest / loudest part of the waveform) and click while holding down option/alt and cmd/ control. To remove a stretch marker – option or alt click it.
Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:47 Adding stretch markers manually 3:33 Snapping stretch markers to the grid (remember to set the grid up as you need) 4:12 Using Dynamic Split (D) to create stretch markers on transients automatically 7:16 Fixing the warble and artifacts 7:58 Changing the algorithm used by Reaper for time stretching https://www.yopo.co.uk
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