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Recordist's notes
Level crossing at night with a crossing train: warning bells and lowering gates, train passes by, gates open, sporadic traffic on the street, flag poles clattering in the wind, some collected rain drops falling on the leaves of a tree. Binaural recording, Zoom F4 recorder, Soundman OKM II Klassik microphone
About the place
Kiel is a city of about 252,668 people in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. OttoAnna lists 53 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Binaural microphones. Microphones worn in the ears (or in a dummy head) that capture sound as a listener hears it – best experienced on headphones.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Eckernförder Str. 339, 24107 Kiel, Deutschland - Level crossing” by thore.siebrands – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0