Welcome to the first bonus episode for Sleep with Nature Sounds.

In these bonus episodes, I will just casually be sharing things like behind-the-scenes stories, recording tips, listener feedback, or just some other information.

Today's bonus episode is a behind-the-scenes look at the nature sound I recorded, which I called

stream over rocks. You can hear this nature sound in the first episode, the one which is numbered

episode number one.

This story that I'm going to tell you about includes how I had to alter nature just a little bit

to improve the sound.

And I'm also going to tell you about a run-in I had with some authorities while I was

recording this sound.

The sound was recorded in Shenandoah National Park,

which is located in Virginia in the United States.

I drove to the park, and I went searching for a place which I thought would be good for recording sounds.

And I'll probably do a future bonus episode on how do you select the site that's good for recording sounds.

Because what I've discovered is you just can't go anywhere that seems like a good place

and think you'll get some good sounds. There's some some tricks, you know, and a basic one is

you just want to make sure it's a good distance from any roads.

But I'll get into that in a future episode.

So I found a spot in Shenandoah National Park, which looked like it was going to be a good place for getting some recordings.

And I parked and the trail I was on was labeled on the map as a fire trail. So here's what you want to imagine that it's about the width of a vehicle.

So whether it's a car or a small

truck. It's mostly grass and it has some tire tracks worn into it or some dirt where vehicles

drive occasionally. For the most part it feels very much like a nature trail

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