Check out gordon hempton: http://soundtracker.com/ He makes fantastic binaural nature recordings. The advantage of binaural recordings is that they have an amazing feeling of "space" so that you forget that you are wearing headphones and that you aren't sitting in a forest. I've made some of my own as well. https://soundcloud.com/moultano

Very nice — I'm working to your Fall Creek right now (my code's compiling). Do you use a commercial dummy head or something less costly?

I salivated over a dummy head for years until I found this: http://3diosound.com/ All of these were recorded with the original model of it.

When exposed to noise for prolonged periods of time, sometime in the middle noise becomes silence. You don't feel there is noise, unless some turns it off or increases/decreases a little.

Its called conditioning the mind.

Its a bit like the right pane in eclipse, In years I never remember using it even once, yet its absence will irritate me.

Ever get that feeling sometimes when you are surrounded by people in a noisy place and yet after sometime sort of don't even feel that is disturbance.

Thanks for posting this. I needed a reminder of the great stuff lurking in the Internet Archive's "stacks".

This is super cool. Thank you! I have to admit I don't get the joke about crickets...

There are some great hour-long ambient recordings at http://whitenoisemp3s.com

This is a fantastic collection. Thanks for sharing this!