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Recordist's notes
Sports Day at St Barnabas' School, Oxford. Recorded from underneath trees in one of the playgrounds. Better ambience. Recorded via a Zoom H4n with a Windcat on. Sunny weather, some wind in trees can be heard. Also some of the sounds from nearby streets can be heard. The Zoom was placed on part of a climbing frame.
About the place
Oxford is a city of about 162,100 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 73 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
- “Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK - Sports Day Races, 2014 (from a distance)” by lcolbert@... – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0