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Subject 1: Andean Goose (Oressochen melanopterus). Timecode In: 00:02:25. Timecode out: 00:03:55. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Chip Stanish. Timecode In: 00:07:39. Timecode out: 01:21:06. Notes: Ancient civilizations of Peru. Habitat: ; ; Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Sennheiser MKH50 Hypercardioid Mid Mic and MKH30 Bidirectional Side Mic through Sonosax SX-M2 preamp into Sony TCDD8. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Peru Log of DAT #: 6 Engineer: Leo del Aguila Date: Nov. 12, 2001 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good 0:01 Leo sets up. November 13th, and ah, we¿re getting started around 8:53am. Same set up, different mics. Sennheisers MKH 50, which is the M. and I have 30¿s, or one 30, MKH 30 (that¿s a figure 8) talking on the positive side, and going to the negative side. Going right into a Sonosax SX M2 pre amp. And I am using the gain control in the low setting, low frequency cut-off, phantom powering obviously, and the output, stereo output going into a D8 Sony TCD D8 datmin. Left side would be the M, right side the S. 2:18-3:57 recording Andean geese. Good squeaks 2:20-2:35. Voices around 2:35 and at 3:04-3:33. More good squeaks 3:35-3:57. 4:00 AC Okay, it¿s Tuesday morning now and we¿re about to start off on another day of expeditioning. Going off with Chip, going off with Chip Stanish to look for sites that really have never been found before. I wouldn¿t have believed what he can do just driving down a road except that we¿ve been driving down those roads with him for the past two days. It¿s a very special kind of site that he¿s looking for today. And that¿s what we¿re going to go look for. These are totally unexplored, completely unknown, stone, completely unknown extensive stone structures where these earlier civ- where these earlier civilizations had built up just very imposing castles and terraces and fortresses. And he can find them. So that¿s what we¿re going to look for today. I¿m pretty tired. It¿s Tuesday morning. I at least managed to sleep well last night. But I¿ve got a fever, I¿ve got a cough. And you don¿t want things settling in your lungs up here at this altitude. It¿s just not a good place to start getting sick. I¿m gaining even more respect for the people that live here and work very hard every day. We¿ve seen people out chopping their fields barefoot and using pickaxes and ancient kinds of foot plows that were used a thousand years ago. They¿re doing okay, they¿re doing just fine. But I have to tell you, if you come from the United States and the kind of altitude that we live at, it¿s tough being here. 6:02 Leo sets up for ambi where Alex was talking. 6:08-7:01 ambi. Echoing voices in the background. Carolyn. 7:07-7:39 Alex and Carolyn chatting. Noises of climbing into the truck. 7:40 AC Okay, we¿re starting off here Tuesday morning, and where are we going Chip? 7:46 CS We¿re going to go up past Chirapata and we¿re going to go past Asillo and we¿re going to go in this little area here in between Asillo and San Antonio and it¿s a little place right in here where it looks really good from the air photos and the maps. And I think we can certainly pick up the later fortresses and the water looks good, the topography looks good. So we suspect that there should be some good stuff up there. 8:15 AC But you¿ve never been there before. 8:16 CS I¿ve never been there before. I¿ve been to this town up here but I¿ve taken the other road, rather through here. This stretch of road I¿ve never been on. 8:26 AC This is reconnaissance archaeology? 8:29 CS Yeah, what we do is we say, um, you go from least intensive to most intensive. The most intensive would be excavating a site. The least intensive would be going into an area where you¿ve never been before or no one else has really published and you don... (Notes truncated)
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- SONY TCD-D8
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- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 50
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- Cataloged
- 16 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 15 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 16 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman