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Recordist's notes
Soundscape of the Crau, an arid stony desert area. Unfortunately also close to Marseille airport... otherwise it would just be insects and birds. Binaural recording. Artificial head microphone set up on a stone heap. Microphone facing north east. Recorded with a Sound Devices 702 field recorder and a modified Crown - SASS setup incorporating two Sennheiser mkh 20 microphones.
About the place
Istres is a town of about 44,373 people in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. OttoAnna lists 3 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Sound Devices recorders, Sennheiser MKH microphones and Binaural microphones. Professional location recorders (702, 722, MixPre series) with very quiet preamps.
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Sources & credits
- “La Crau, Saint-Martin-de-Crau, Frankreich - La Crau. Insects, birds and an aeroplane” by matthias.feuersenger – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0