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Recordist's notes
Apart from the occasional bird, Pripyat was very quiet. The wind in the trees is evident here and with the exception of Neil's video camera turning on (at about 25 seconds into this recording), the lack of man made noise is extremely pleasant. Schoeps CCM4Lg & CCM8Lg M/S in modified Rode blimp directly into a Sound Devices 702 recorder Edited in Wave Editor on Mac OSx 10.5 sent by john[at]tudorfarm.net.au at 24.09.2009 09:50
Context
This recording was made away from larger towns, about 48 km from the nearest city in our gazetteer.
Equipment mentioned: Sound Devices recorders, Røde microphones and Schoeps microphones. Professional location recorders (702, 722, MixPre series) with very quiet preamps.
Recorded nearby
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Sources & credits
- “Wind, Pripyat, Ukraine - Wind in the trees” by John Tudor – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0