It's my understanding that around here they're the only ones who go
"ribbit"--Pacific Chorus Frogs aka Pacific Tree Frogs.
At 03:41 AM 3/30/2005, Aaron Ximm wrote:
>So,
>
>this weekend I recorded a frog chorus at Harbin Hotsprings, near Middleton
>and near Calistoga here in northern california...
>
>Someone suggested these might be "Pacific Chorus Frogs" but I thought I'd
>defer to the wisdom of the group...? Fwiw I gently looked through the
>grass where I was as I swear it sounded as if one of the little fellows
>could have hopped a half foot into my lap! But alas I could spot no one!
>
>MP3s at:
>
> http://www.quietamerican.org/download/dropbox/Harbin/
>
>The two "frog" files are the same recording -- one (as labeled) I took a
>30 second stab at "cleaing up" to remove the gray noise of a stream a few
>hundred feet away and some mic hiss... a bit of a hack job, the broadband
>noise just becomes a distractingly notched hiss until the calls come in to
>distract you... :)
>
>The original recording with Sonic Studios DSM-6S/EH mics, the Sonic
>Studios "mini-pre," and a venerable MZ-R37 MD deck.
>
>Btw the other two files in that directory are of a pool drain I recorded
>a few hours earlier that evening, with my DSM mics as above, and a few
>minutes later with my new toy, the Aquarian H2 hydrophone with the 1/8"
>stereo termination and made to mate to "plug-in power" mic inputs as on my
>MD... the nearby generator can be heard in both... :/
>
> best,
> aaron
>
>
> http://www.quietamerican.org
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