Jecklin Disk

Watershed Memories represent several years of sitting under the stars waiting for Nature to talk and sing on 91,000 acres of the Mt. Tamalpais watershed lands.

This playlist is dedicated to Laurie for her years of caring and working toward a better lands management experience for all who met her.  I am forever grateful to her for being a kind and helpful champion of my work preserving the soundscapes of this rare and beautiful land.

Listen at low volume for an ambiance experience of another world.

Thank you Laurie and MMWD.
Gina
April 30, 2021

Watershed Memories - For Laurie

Fall 2017 Coyotes in a Wind Storm at Sky Oaks Meadow

This is a recording Maggie and I did while near the beach in Point Reyes on the morning of March 11, 2011.  This is a living document of Nature at the time the tsunami wave arrived at the western edge of the continental U.S. - Point Reyes.  We had no idea there was an earthquake in Japan.  We did comment that the ocean seemed much louder than the night before.

Tsunami Morning at Point Reyes

Celebrating my first International Dawn Chorus Day in Nairobi, where I'm usually woken up by Pied Crows, House Sparrows and Hadadas...and very audible traffic noise in the distance. So, I'm sharing a mixed chorus from one of my most memorable camping expeditions in Kitobo Forest, away from city noise pollution. Ideally dawn chorus is majorly orchestrated by birds but this is not always guaranteed. This day we were woken up by a mix of Black and white Colobus Monkeys and Red-capped Robin-chats, which made a beautiful dawn chorus. Enjoy every little bit of nature's music wherever you are. 
#naturesoundrecording #wildlifeacoustics #zoomh1 #internationaldawnchorusday #dawnchorusday #dawnchorus #blackandwhitecolobusmonkey #redcappedrobinchat #birdsong #wildsong #kitoboforest #kenya




Black and white Colobus Monkeys

Very quiet morning, the back door of our garage is talking in the wind.

Tascam DR05X, 24bit, 48 kHz
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2 omnis and a Jecklin Disk
Uploaded as 16bit FLAC.

A Steel Door - 2023/08/23 - Talking in the Wind

Bullfogs, clicking crustaceans, fishing coots, and other marsh bird fill the air in the dawn recording in the Sierra Valley March near Beckwourth, California. Downstream  is the headwaters of the Feather River. This riparian area attracts one of the largest stopovers of migrating birds in all of California.

This recording was made during the 2024 Field Recording Workshop of the Nature Sounds Society. This is an experiment with stereo microphones (Sennheiser MKH-8020 on a Jecklin disk baffle) above the water and a center-panned hydrophone in the water.

Sierra Valley Marsh w/hydrophone, June 22, 2024

Here is a young coyote walking back to the family group; too young to be on its own, but old enough to bring home stories to tell the folks.  Recorded by Gina Farr in the Marin County watershed, September 30, 2011, approximately 3:15 am.  Sennheiser mics mkh 30/40 in MS array; sound devices 722 recorder with rycote windscreen.

Juvenile Coyote Calling to Family Group

This is the sound of a Freight Train in a train yard preparing for its trip out of Richmond, CA.

Freight Train recorded with a Schoeps MK2(pair) and a Jecklin Disk

Earth is a Solar Powered Jukebox

Earth is a Solar Powered Jukebox preview

One native and one introduced species singing in harmony.


I don't know about you but I absolutely love the sound of the bullfrog!
This is the sound of Stossel Creek, a place I have recorded for many years now, it is around 01:30 am, the moon shines on the ponds that are home to waterfowl, amphibians, mammals and an abundance of birds.
On this early morning, the grunts of the bullfrog and the croaks of the Pacific Chorus frogs can be heard for miles.
Recordist: Martyn Stewart
Recorder: Sound Devices 722
Microphone: MKH 30/40
Tripod mounted
Date: July 3rd 2017
Location: Stossel Creek, Washington State.

Bullfrog and The chorus Frog

A couple of good cracks of thunder along with some subdued rolls from under the verandah at home.  February 18 2020.  sE8's into Mixpre 3

Thunder Feb 2020

solo version of this classic, recorded very simply 
in these weird, dark times, it's still good to be a little optimistic . . .

Over The Rainbow

“Senur” first chapter.

In 10th of February 2013 I recorded a concert with Amateur symphony orchestra. 
The program contained a wonderful melody “Senur” composed in four chapters by Sigurður Sævarsson. It was composed for string orchestra and obo. Both the orchestra and the soloist, Guðrún Másdóttir, played it flawless. 
I was pretty happy with the recording result, even though the concert hall (a church) sounded terrible for recording. It has a very harsh sound and difficult peaks in some resonance frequencies. 
Over the orchestra I used a Jecklin disk with a double pair of mics, parallel MKH8020 and MKH20 in 45°+45° (see following picture). 
Close to the soloist was a pair of MKH8040 and far behind in the hall was a pair of SE4400a with spaced Omni (70cm). 
 
Past months I have got a few emails where people ask me for a sound sample with my Jecklin disk. So this is it. Hereby is the first chapter of Senur. The only post work I do for this Soundcloud work out was turning off MKH8020 on the Jecklin disk and the SE4400a far behind in the hall. Then I increase the gain of MKH20 on the Jecklin disk about +8dB

Other mix of this recording and more information can be found here:
http://fieldrecording.net/2013/03/15/senur-first-chapter/

Information about the Jecklin disk:
https://picasaweb.google.com/104187345157190691446/DIYJecklinDisk?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Composer Sigurður Sævarsson:
http://sigurdursaevarsson.com/

Amateur symphony orchestra:
http://www.ahugasinfonia.is/

"Senur" chapter one, with MKH20 on Jecklin disk

You’ve probably seen old-timey radios before, but a 2018 exhibition at SFO called "On the Radio," explored the history of radio all the way back to the days when hobbyists tuned in with crystal headsets they built themselves to communicate over what they called the “wireless telephone.”

'Broadcasting to You Live From San Jose!'

A lightly-edited excerpt from the Nature Sounds Society's annual soundscape recording in Upper Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park. 4:43 AM, June 21, 2020. Mixed down from six channels. Starts soft, gets louder, decrescendos to quiet again. This is the NSS's contribution to World Listening Day, 2020.

Dawn Chorus, Yosemite NP, Mariposa Grove, Spring 2020

Recorded at the approach end of the Reading Air Show with a Jecklin Disk using two Audio-Technica AT4022 microphones and a Sound Devices 702 recorder.  This is a rare opportunity to hear B-29 bomber performing a high speed low-altitude fly-over.  

This is very close to what it must have sounded like to the Allied prisoners of war who were starving at the Omori prison camp in Tokyo, when suddenly a B-29 flew low over the camp.  Many spirits were revived on that day for sure.

Recording levels were set with minimal gain in order to hopefully eliminate any clipping.  The sound is best heard with wide-range monitors turned up slightly.  If the lapels on your shirt flap during the fly-over you have the sound level set about right. 

Rare B-29 Superfortress bomber FiFi performs a high speed low altitude flyover, AT4022, Jecklin disk

Recorded at the approach end of the Reading Air Show, three B-25 mitchell bombers, (Briefing Time)(Yankee Warrior) and (Panchito), perform a low-altitude fly-over.  Recorded with a Jecklin Disk using two Audio-Technica AT4022 microphones and a Sound Devices 702 recorder.  The recording gain was turned down in an effort to avoid clipping.  When listening, you should increase the gain on your system.  Wide-range monitors, good speakers, or headphones are best to realize the feel of the sounds.

Sierra Valley Marsh w/hydrophone, June 22, 2024

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