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Maximon
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Recordist's notes
Guatemala, near San Pedro de la Laguna, chaotic soundscape in the a smoky room where people talk, cry, yell, drink beers and honor the evil saint Maximon, Zoom H4N, build-in microphones, 24 bits, 96 kHz, https://archive.org/details/Maximon
About the place
Santiago Atitlán is a town of about 33,309 people in Sololá, Guatemala. OttoAnna lists 33 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H4n. One of the most widely used field recorders of the 2010s, with X/Y mics and two XLR inputs.
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Sources & credits
- “San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala - Maximon” by Anon6116 – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0