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New Year 2018 Temple Bells and Fireworks
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Recordist's notes
New Year's eve recording in a field in Japan. We can hear temple bells, traffic, trains, and other sounds. At midnight nearby fireworks and a neighbor's firecracker announce the new year. Recorded with an Audio-Technica BP4025 stereo microphone and a Tascam DR-70D recorder mounted on a tripod.
About the place
Rittō is a town of about 70,312 people in Shiga, Japan. OttoAnna lists 20 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Audio-Technica microphones. Including the AT8022 and BP4025 X/Y stereo microphones.
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Sources & credits
- “New Years Eve in Tsuji, Rittō-shi, Shiga-ken, Japan - New Year 2018 Temple Bells and Fireworks” by Greg Peterson – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0