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Recordist's notes
Soft waves on the beach at night at Chez Nono. High tide. In the distance the sound of the waves of the open pacific breaking on the outer reef. in the beginning and in the middle of the recording the grating calls of Brown Noddys can be heard, a species of tern.Recorded with a Sound Devices 702 field recorder and a modified Crown - SASS setup incorporating two Sennheiser mkh 20 microphones. Dummy head microphone facing seaward.
Context
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
- “Chez Nono, Bora-Bora, Französisch-Polynesien - soft waves on the beach on Bora Bora at midnight” by matthias.feuersenger – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0