Always nice to find a recording from 2023 that I had forgotten. Although mainly because the summer of 2023 was difficult to record due to cold, wind and rain from spring until just over mid-summer. What also happened was that I lost all the photos I took on my phone this summer, so the possibilities of posting material from this summer on this website decreased.
With this recording session I remembered that I had taken a lot of photos on the SLR camera from the recording location, photos that had not been lost.
This recording was made on July 11, when Summer nights are bright.
As often happened this summer, the birdlife was extremely silent and distant. There was no exception in this recording with very brief exceptions.
I placed the microphones in shelter under the shoreline and pointed them out to sea. The tide was in the middle and the wind was out to sea so the waves were calm.
While the sun was setting north of the Westfjords mountain range, it was nice to lie in the grass and let time pass while the recorder captured the moment down to the shore.
I let the first 35 minutes resonate here. It is therefore heard in me as I start the device and leave. At the end, most likely a raven sits right next to the microphone, probably hoping to have found food, but flies away when it turns out that the microphones did not resemble as two dead fury animals.
The recording was done with 48dB gain in the audio processing, it was increased by 23dB up to -5dB. The HPF was at 80hz
(mp3 256kbps / 66,7Mb)
Recorder: Sound devices MixPre6
Mics: Rode NT1a (NOS)
Pix: Canon EOS R
Location: 65.045427, -22.797681
Weather: Clear sky, 2-4 m/sec, 7°C
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