Welcome to a bonus episode for the Sleep with Nature Sounds podcast.

This bonus episode is going to be a behind-the-scenes look at the nature sound, wind or round house.

You can hear this nature sound in episodes number 25 and number 26.

All right, so here's the backstory.

Several days ago I was in my house trying to record some spoken audio.

And this was a really bad idea for that day

because it was one of the windiest days I can ever remember.

The sound of the wind was so strong that it was getting into the vocal recordings.

Initially, I wasn't so worried about this because I thought I might be able to just remove the sound of the wind

in post-production editing. But it really didn't work out that way. It was just too difficult to remove

that wind sound without altering the vocals. And I was working with the audio, and I was sort of

annoyed at how well the microphones picked up the sound of the wind just whipping around the house. And then as I kept listening

to it, I actually started getting impressed at how good the quality of the recording was

of that wind sound. Then it finally occurred to me.

Instead of trying to remove the wind sound from the vocal sounds,

how about I just remove the vocal sounds from the wind sound?

And that's what you hear in episode number 25,

the accidental recording of the sound of the wind

whipping around my house.

I then also took that same recording

and added some panning effects to make it a bit more

hypnotic to fall asleep to.

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