<b>An 'ultimate' sleep-assist soundscape. &#8212; a beautiful 'hypnotic' peacefulness, with a constant interplay between the wave rhythms down below on the left and those of the distant sea beyond the far (west) end of the landslip. Because of the acoustics of the landslip and its cliffs, this is a really immersive sound, with a strong soporific effect, so it's definitely <i>not</i> suitable for listening to while driving or operating machinery. This recording has the sea down below on the left more prominently audible than the concurrent recording from the highest workable spot. Surprisingly, this actually made a really nice effect in its own right, with more immediate impression of differentiation between that and the more distant sea sound out to the west.</b> <b>This is the last hour of the actually over-long full version at <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/685007/" rel="nofollow">https://freesound.org/people/Philip_Goddard/sounds/685007/</a> , in response to a request for a shorter version. In truth, for such a relatively repeating and un-varied soundscape it was a bit nonsensical for me to upload such a long recording in the first place without cutting it down. This monkey's perfectly capable of doing the odd silly things!</b> This was one of the fruits of my all-night recording session at Branscombe Landslip, Beer, Devon, UK, on the night of 30/31 May 2017. Wind had made worthwhile evening recording impossible, but, come late evening, the wind dropped right down, so at least I could start with a couple of concurrent recordings of the sea action during the night. I put one recorder on the highest spot of the landslip from where I could overlook most of it, facing roughly westwards to the sea at Branscombe Mouth and beyond. I placed the recorder for <em>this</em> recording a little way almost directly below the top recording position, beside the Coast Path, where its sharp zigzag from the top position turns west on descent, with a narrow rather exposed unofficial track branching off to east from that bend, at the foot of a small bare cliff. This spot too had strongly invited me previously, and indeed when I recorded the 'grandstand panorama' dawn chorus there last year, that had been a fall-back from my real wish to record from this slightly higher position with better panorama (but was too windy then). The trouble about this spot was the seemingly over-prominent sea sound from right below (on sharp left for recorder facing west over the landslip), and the lack of choice about tripod position; for the panorama it needed to be the full-length Zipshot tripod, and there was only one possible placement of its legs without it falling over. But in that position a shorter tripod was needed to shield the recorder from the direct sea sound below to left, especially as the sea was still fairly noisy on that night! <img alt="" src="https://www.broad-horizon-nature.co.uk/me-icon_confused.gif"> I therefore decided just to record anyway, with apparently over-loud sea sound down below to left, and most likely discard all that afterwards as sounding too unbalanced. &#8212; Except that, as already indicated, when I came to examine the recording subsequently, it worked out really well, and refreshingly different from what I'd been seeking then. <img alt="Dummy-run with too much wind" src="https://www.broad-horizon-nature.co.uk/170530_recording_setup_branscombe_landslip_east_end_02.jpg"> <i>A dummy run recording at the same spot the previous evening, when it was too windy to get anything useful. The little notice placed on the ground under the recorder informs passers-by that a recording is in progress, and asks for them to pass by quietly and quickly.</i> <img alt="Part of the recorder's panorama" src="https://www.broad-horizon-nature.co.uk/150616_branscombe_landslip_at_pre-sunrise.jpg"> <i>Pre-sunrise panorama of Landslip, from position above the actual recording position during a 2015 session. Recorder position to left and behind / below this position. Echoes and reverberation from the more distant sea action spread towards us on the towering chalk cliffs to right, making it sound as though the whole Landslip area is alive and gently breathing and indeed writhing.</i> <b>Techie stuff:</b> The recorder was a Sony PCM-D100, with two nested custom Windcut furry windshields, placed on a Zipshot Mini tripod. Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshields. <b>Please remember to give this recording a rating &#8212; Thank you! <img alt="" src="https://www.broad-horizon-nature.co.uk/me-icon_wink.gif"></b>