Sound Library - Old Faithful

Old Faithful

NPS/Neal Herbert

 

• Old Faithful

  
  

  Need some audio to go with our streaming video camera at Old Faithful? Enjoy this late-fall recording made without crowds. Headphones recommended: the rumble you hear isn't wind, it's a natural vibration caused by the eruption. Mono recording.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS/Jennifer Jerrett

  Date created:

  11/16/2014

  Audio Transcript

  Sustained sound, growing louder before subsiding.

  [steam hissing and water splashing]

 

• Old Faithful (Stereo)

  
  

  Stereo recording of Old Faithful and wind moving through the evergreens on an early spring day.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS/Jennifer Jerrett

  Date created:

  03/22/2015

  Audio Transcript

  Sustained sound, growing louder before subsiding.

  [steam hissing and water splashing]

 

• Old Faithful vs. Low-flying plane

  
  

  Anthropogenic noise can change your Yellowstone experience. Who wins the audio standoff: Old Faithful or a small aircraft flying overhead? Stereo Recording.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS/Jennifer Jerrett

  Date created:

  03/22/2015

  Audio Transcript

  Sustained sound, growing louder before subsiding.

  [plane engine humming] [steam hissing and water splashing]

 

• Old Faithful (Remixed)

  
  

  Listen to a composite recording of Old Faithful: five different stereo recording set-ups of the same eruption event.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS/Jennifer Jerrett and Peter Comley

  Date created:

  03/22/2015

  Audio Transcript

  Sustained sound, growing louder before subsiding.

  [steam hissing and water splashing]

 

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