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Hunt's Lookout Bats at Midnight
4:58
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Recordist's notes
Bats making a racket in a small reserve in a residential area of Cremorne..the percussive sounds are their droppings/fruit etc falling to the ground from the treetops... DPA 4060 pair into Earthling Designs (custom) preamps, Zoom H6.. slight EQ roll off to remove some city rumble
About the place
Sydney is a city of about 5,638,830 people in New South Wales, Australia. OttoAnna lists 205 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H6 and DPA microphones. A six-track recorder with interchangeable capsules and four XLR inputs.
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Sources & credits
- “Cremorne, NSW, Australia - Hunt's Lookout Bats at Midnight” by Ben Carey – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0