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Recordist's notes
Recorded on a Sunday afternoon in a small bamboo grove along Yasugawa (river) with a Sony PCM-M10 recorder. Processed with Audacity on Fedora Linux: trimmed length to 10 minutes, applied high-pass filter (6dB/octave at 1000Hz), and normalized. MP3 generated with LAME.
About the place
Yasu is a town of about 50,695 people in Shiga, Japan. OttoAnna lists 3 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Sony PCM-M10. A pocket recorder famous for its low self-noise and long battery life.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Minamizakura, Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan - Japanese bush warbler, pheasant, and crows” by Greg Peterson – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0