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tai-studio.org Trains manoeuvring between Helsinki main station and Pasila on 26.10.2015, around 20:00h. Recorded with a LOM stereo pair of Omni microphones and (separate file but simultaneously) an Electrosluch 3 to record electrostatics. Minimal editing done, no cutting. Find all raw recordings at https://archive.org/details/TrainsHelsinki
About the place
Helsinki is a city of about 658,864 people in Uusimaa, Finland. OttoAnna lists 38 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: LOM microphones (Uši). Small omni microphones from the Slovak LOM collective, popular for quiet nature recording.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Helsinki, Finland - Trains between Helsinki mainstation and Pasila” by LFSaw@LF... – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0