Hi there,

I just got back from an amazing weekend in the lowvelt of South Africa recording birds, leopards, lions and of course, ambience. It is winter here so a lot of the bird life is away up north. Both myself and the other field recordist struggled with getting good velt ambiences because it was so quiet. We got the odd section where some bird or buck spoke but for the most part, the areas were dead. 

Any advice on what to do in this situation? We were using the Scheops CMC 4 with an MK 4 capsule and a Sennheisser 418. What to do, what to do?