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Middle of night frog & insect drone in Ouachita forest

Beaverdam Island, Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States of America

A field recording by dismalhiker made in Maumelle, United States on 19 March 2020, in the night. Soundscape: rain, frogs & insects and forests.

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Middle of night frog & insect drone in Ouachita forest
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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.

Written by dismalhiker on radio aporee ::: maps.

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.

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