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How authentic soundscapes can distinguish real places from an expanding flood of synthetic and mass-produced content. My first great love with field recording came during one of many crunches at work, when…
My first drop rig in Romania failed because I forgot to use the hold switch. I would love to say the problem was more complicated, that there was some great systematic technical…
FieldLog.net is now available on the iOS App Store! This has been a long time coming. For a while, FieldLog.net has lived on Android and the web. That worked, but it turns…
A Small Mod for a Slightly Weird (and Very Good) Recorder The Zoom M4 is a strange recorder. And I mean that in a good way. It sits in this interesting space…
Ever since I started sharing the android version of the app, people have asked if I had an iOS version. After finding some Apple hardware, and porting the Kotlin app to Kotlin…
Release Date: February 19, 2025Version: 1.5.3 Drop Rig Tracking The headline feature of this release is support for unattended drop rig recordings. Field recordists can now track equipment deployed in remote locations…
The vocabulary around environmental audio can be surprisingly broad. I’ve briefly discussed the take/recording dilemma before, and today I’d like to touch on field recording, ambience, and soundscape. These terms are often…
Release Date: January 19, 2025Version: 1.5.2 Take Creation Memory/Speed Ups It was always the intention to make the number of tracks/sample rate/bit depth save between takes, so the last used one would…
Release Date: December 22, 2025Version: 1.5.1 Enhanced Map Experience The maps have been a bit subpar, since I’ve mostly been using them on the web app. So here are a bunch of…
I started writing FieldLog after frustrations from how poorly I handled organization after a trip to England in April. Well, I’ve been using the Android app (and syncing online) since around the…
