The sound you will hear when you click this file are crickets in my backyard slowed down 8 times. I heard about it on the interwebs but had to find out for myself. Sounds like an angelic choir, also kind of spooky for All Hallows Eve. I used a Tascam DR-07 digital recorder a few weeks ago, set it out for an hour starting at around 2am in the Texas hill country just NW of Austin. I used Paul's Stretch, slowed it down 8 times and brought the low octaves up to hear it, then used a noise filter to take out unwanted hiss. That's it, nothing more. The original file was 1 hour long, I sectioned off a continual file of about 2 minutes in Logic Pro 9 that didn't have any barking dogs or jet noises and stretched that to 16 minutes (8x), then cut it down to 2 for this file. It really makes me wonder what else we aren't hearing out there. I'm going to continue this research at different times of the year and to different places when I go there. Happy Halloween. :)

Crickets4Short

Figured I'd get a recording in before winter as there will be no more cricket sounds till spring. The first one is the raw recording for one minute. If you have a program to look at the waveforms at the same time, it's interesting to listen to the version that's slowed down and see how it correlates to the original. I recorded a little after midnight so there is more traffic noise in the background then the first recording (that was at 3am). I recorded about an hour and a half.
Recorded on a Tascam DR-07, brought into Logic Pro 9, chopped to a 1 minute chunk, brought into PaulsStretch, slowed down 8x and lower octaves brought up with some noise reduction.

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This is my wife Julie with Damian Sisca, riffing one humid evening at RanchoRelaxo Studios. I'm very lucky to know such talent.

NoOneIsAlone

Great little tune I whipped up with Damian Sisca for a kids story I was doing at the time about a Blue Heron that helps out all of the area animals with their problems. My daughter and I would see a Blue Heron every evening around 5pm going back to his nest (of which I eventually would see in person on Lake Travis in Austin)and we made up the story and the name of the good doctor.

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