Very loud cricket! Apparently for some species of Cricket you can get a rough estimate of the temperature by counting the chirps in a given space of time. Well it was 20 Celsius when this little beastie was recorded. Recording chain: Rode NT4 (Stereo mic, in Rode Blimp) - Edirol R44 digital recorder.

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  mothboycurry 2 years, 2 months ago

  It is not a mole cricket - it is a field cricket, probably in the genus Gryllus or Teleogryllus. Mole crickets make a very loud continuous trilling call, without any obvious separate chirps.
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  digifishmusic 4 years, 1 month ago

  Thanks, one of the sounds I associate with Japan are crickets, great site here...

  http://mushinone.cool.ne.jp/English/ENGindex.htm

  in particular the Cicadas - Semi

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuwANo6LFho
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  Heigh-hoo 4 years, 1 month ago

  You mean, they've started to prepare for the winter. Sometimes the cricket's chirp hits the sweet spot of the microphones. Nice.