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Recordist's notes
Each first Wednesday of the month, at 12h00, they do a siren test in the whole city of Prague. Recorded here from a parc, on a hill, in Prague 5. Recorded by a MS Setup CCM41 + CCM8 Schoeps On a Sound Devices Mixpre6 GPS: 50.077172,14.404637 Original Recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit Recorded during a residency at Agosto Foundation
About the place
Prague is a city of about 1,165,581 people in Prague, Czechia. OttoAnna lists 306 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Sound Devices recorders and Schoeps microphones. Professional location recorders (702, 722, MixPre series) with very quiet preamps.
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Sources & credits
- “Kimského Zahrada, Praha 5 - Siren test in Prague” by Felix BLUME – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0