But it is literally right on the edge - on the lip of the edge - of the waterfall, and you jump into a pool of surprisingly unperturbed water. After a 40 minute hike along and through the myriad boulders and creeks, my arrival at the Smoke that Thunders was greeted by a man in khaki shorts who approached me with an exciting offer - and before I knew it, I was wading into the water with my recording equipment safe and sound in my Pelican 1500 waterproof case.įor a nominal fee you can dive off a rock at the edge of Victoria Falls into a naturally occuring eddy pool called the Devil's Pool. Just a few months after this recording took place, tremendous amounts of violent rushing water will be storming over my footprints. The falls were spilling over only half of the gorge while the other half was somewhat dry for the moment, and I hiked along the edge. Nevertheless, loud roaring caterwauls of forceful moving water was everywhere around me, everywhere I turned. Because the water level was low, I was allowed to explore areas of Victoria Falls that were usually under heavy rushing water - so instead of overwhelming brumes of mist soaking me to the bone, I could see the cliff faces with steep scary drops to the mighty Zambezi River underneath. The Devil's Pool is a naturally formed pool located right on the edge of Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall in the world. The world-famous Devil's Pool - the most dangerous natural infinity pool on Earth. Encoded at a bitrate of 192 kbps for quality listening.Ĭompanion field recordings: Top of the Chasm, Devil's Poolĭuration: 67 minutes 31 seconds, Size: 92.7 MB. This recording technique produces a 3-dimensional audio portrait when listening with headphones. Victoria Falls is a natural white noise soundscape composed of a non-looped digital stereo quasi-binaural field recording. You will hear the sound of one hand clapping. Get yourself a pair of over-the-ear headphones with ample amounts of bass response, take a seat somewhere in a boisterous coffee shop or relax in a hotel room with adjacent noisy neighbours, and then play Victoria Falls. This MP3 is literally a bedroom for one's ears.
No music has been added.Įxtensive testing conducted through many years of travel has led me to conclude that Victoria Falls combined with the Sennheiser HD 380 PRO at 85% iPad volume provides seven times (7x) the sound attenuation of merely using foam and silicone earplugs alone. No sounds of people, birds, animals or planes are included. Victoria Falls features no fade-in or fade-out at the beginning or the end, so there are no distractions in sound volume when played on repeat. This recording and photo were taken at that time, from the eastern cataract at the Zambian side. In March and April of 2009, record rainfalls in the watershed created an extra volume of water that had to be released over the falls around April 12th. This claim is based on the fact that it plunges 108 meters (360 feet) over a width of 1,708 meters (5,600 feet) into a basalt lined gorge, forming the largest sheet of falling water ever to be discovered by man (and thus, the largest concentrated source of environmental brown noise). While Victoria Falls is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, it is claimed to be the largest. It is a powerful, thundering, and expansive recording that relaxes the listener with a full-spectrum spacious sound, apt for masking both rumbling and high-pitched distractions. Victoria Falls is a natural source of “brown noise” (a lower-pitched and less irritable form of “true” white noise) that is ideal for sleep and masking unwanted background noises. Victoria Falls - the Seventh Wonder of the World the largest waterfall in the world. Duration: 66 minutes 48 seconds, Size: 91.7 MB.