ML147698
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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Bogue Chitto NWR ambiance. Timecode In: 00:00:03. Timecode out: 01:01:18. Notes: At Lock #2. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Christopher Clark. Timecode In: 01:03:04. Timecode out: 01:42:25. Notes: Discusses ARUs. Habitat: ; ; Equipment Notes: Decoded MS stereo, subject 1. DPA 4060 omni mics, subject 2. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Woodpeckers Log of DAT #: 17 Engineer: Flawn Williams Date: 1/26/02 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good First hour is undecoded MS stereo ambiences at Lock 2 area of Bogue Chitto NWR Saturday 4-5pm. Then starting at 10300, is a split track omni intv with Chris Clark Saturday evening. 01 00000 sound at Lock 2, water sound 02 00230 mechanical metallic sounds of walking over lock walkway *** 03 00330 better water sound, from far side of lock *** 00440 footsteps recede from lock, quickly get to quiet walking ambience 05 00520 ambi east of lake at Lock 2 area. Loud 00540 good bird with insects/frogs, distant airplane *** 00708 barred owl call? Or people making the calls? Frogs/insects dominate, but can be attenuated with EQ around 4220 to 4550 Hz. 00900 stop and add Windjammer cover to combat wind 06 01040 resume ambi with windjammer, loud plane overhead 01300 plane recedes, good insect flyby, fly hovers near mike, high pitched whine 01400 more insects, some distant truck on Hwy 41 to 01430 01740 good distant birds, coming closer, then quiet 01800 02045 good single bird call, fairly close, a bit of pecking display barely audible*** 02320 leaf skitters into bush near mike, sounding VERY much bigger than it was 02340 jet overhead, some pecking in distance (one bird left ch, one in right) 02550 interesting distant bird, not much use for audibility though 03050 truck in far distance, then jet far overhead 03210 fly hovers near mike for a few seconds 03320 distant pecking on tree, distant barred owl calls or people imitating 03500 good mid-distant bird call but with beginnings of jet overhead 03900 good crows in distance and other birds too 03930 close crow and close pileated woodpecker, more close crow, some distant pecking *** 04025 more close crow 04135 more echoey crow and distant woodpecker cry, followed by oncoming airplane 04300 very close airplane overflight with crow (distorts starting at 04322 just before Dopplering overhead, lowered recording gain at this point) 04520 airplane finally receding, forest got quieter. Car audible on Hwy 41. Then quiet ambi, just frogs/insects, fly passes 04630, distant pecking display at 04640 and 04700 ***and 04720 04940 good distant repeated bird calls (need to ID this) *** 05015 jet comes overhead distant right channel 05335 good distant bird cry *** 05550 distant airplane approaches, recedes quickly 05740 distant pecking display, again at 05830 05945 good fly buzzby in quiet ambi*** 09 10115 slate preceding ambience 10 10220 slate upcoming intv Sat evening - 6:15pm intvw with Chris Clark (CC) in hotel room in twin omni DPAs 1:03:30 CJ - well, show me what this is CC - well, most of this it is a 30 gigabyte drive. I mean that is the biggest weight on it. And this top unit here, we actually purchased that - there is a company called Onset computers and they make this little thing called a "Tattle-tale." So we have taken - when we started designing these back in 1995 - late 1995, when we were motivated to do our own bc... [some notes missing] ...when was the warmest place around. And the whales were coming through the leap. And he just stood there and he said, "now I understand why you do this." And to me that's a spiritual moment. It's just one of those really special, defining moments, of why you do put up with the slogging and the difficult and the long days. We don't do this for money, cause we're passionate about it. For beer... (Notes truncated)
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- SONY TCD-D8
- Microphone
- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 50
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- Cataloged
- 3 Feb 2010 - David McCartt
- Digitized
- 3 Feb 2010 - David McCartt
- Edited
- 3 Feb 2010 - David McCartt