Sounds from another world, or just my front yard?

[greatbear]

For the past couple days, I have set a mic on a stand outside of the studio window to try and capture the cicadas in action. This clip captures the entire 'orchestra' of cicadas as they are fading out, but also highlights a couple 'soloists' in the trees closest to my yard.

Since the earth here had been farmland or had been repeatedly disturbed during the house contruction, there are only a few, if any, of the usual 'horde' that arrives in these parts. The sound of the cicadas en masse comes from about a quarter mile away or so, from the forested area surrounding a nearby lake/reservoir. The individuals are coming from the trees on the edge of my property, roughly 200 feet from the mikes.

Comments

[madkevinp.livejournal.com]

that was cool...

Purty!

[leatherotter.livejournal.com]

And I have some electronica which kinda sounds like that. LOL.

[chrisglass.livejournal.com]

Neato!
I keep hoping to catch one since i apparently live in the epicenter, but so far, no go.
Dig the sound capture. Much better than a photo.

[bearlover.livejournal.com]

That was pretty nice. What else do you use your studio for? Music?

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Yes. I am a (very) lapsed guitar/bassist. These days I only pick them up to get frustrated and lament the days when I was almost mediocre. These days I use my setups for mastering other people's work, little recording projects, mix projects and general tinkering.

[bearlover.livejournal.com]

Do you have the specs listed anywhere?

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I had them listed on a now defunct webpage. It's not much, my core equipment:

TASCAM TM-D1000 16 channel digital mixer
Behringer MX 802A analog mixer
Alesis Nanoverb
Sharp SXD100 DAT
Audigy2 ex PC sound card

Monitoring is mostly though Yamaha RH 5Ma headphone through a Crate headphone amp. Mics are EV-10s. The setup is very clean and low noise, the cicada recording was done with all the gains at max. I use Cool Edit Pro 2.0 and Adobe Audition for recording and processing. Steinberg Cubase for what little MIDI sequencing I muddle with. Four guitars, a bass, a floorful of various stompboxes and a Casio keyboard are the primary noisemakers.