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Recordist's notes
Excerpt (1 am, March 19, 2020) from a 14 hour long recording made in this location using MikroUsi (Lom) mic pair attached to a tree (head-spaced) about 40 cm above ground, into a Sony A10 recorder (128 Gb micro-SD card) powered by an Anker power bank (USB connector). This recorder can record at 48,000 khz, 24 bit for many days with this configuration. This is about a 10 minute period during a light rain, with cricket frogs, spring peepers (frogs), other frogs, crickets and other insects calling constantly. The entire forest is reverberating with these sounds in all directions, creating a blend of hundreds (or thousands) of sounds that drone on all evening and all night. When I was there setting up the recorder, the frogs where so (painfully) loud that I wore headphones as ear protection.
About the place
Maumelle is a town of about 17,931 people in Arkansas, United States. OttoAnna lists 3 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: LOM microphones (Uši). Small omni microphones from the Slovak LOM collective, popular for quiet nature recording.
Recorded nearby
Cricket frogs and spring peepers near Lake Maumelle, March 18, 2020
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Spring Peepers (frogs) at Lunsford Pond
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Allsopp Trail - Birds, Bugs, etc. (Cars too, unfortunately)
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Somewhere near UALR (Exact location redacted for privacy) - Like…
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Sources & credits
- “Lunsford Corner, Lake Maumelle, Arkansas, USA - Middle of night frog & insect drone in Ouachita forest” by dismalhiker – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0