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St. Benedict's Abbey bells Atchison KS close 9-28-2019.wav

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kb7clx

September 28th, 2019

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Soundscapes > Urban
Atchison, Kansas, United States
neighborhood

Bells ring at St. Benedict's Abbey in Atchison Kansas for the noon hour. I'm sitting on the steps facing Division Street between 2nd and 3rd. The bells begin to ring and I get up and slowly walk east to get a bit closer to the sound. You hear my cane tap a couple times in the background. Some traffic is heard on Division which is busy on a Saturday. You can hear a few crickets in the background. A crow caws in the distance near the beginning, a distant call from another bird is heard a bit later. Recorded in Goldwave with an Asus laptop in my backpack with Microsoft Lifecam 3000 poking out of a small compartment and clothespinned to the bag to cut down on noise when I walk. It has a borrowed sock on it to block out the wind. The only production is a (reduce peaks) with Goldwave's native compressor and raised the overall volume. This is part of a 40 minute walk I made from home to the Abbey and back to get a good recording of the bells. I'll post more of the walk later.

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Wave (.wav)

Duration

1:42.099

File size

17.2 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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kb7clx

2 years, 5 months ago

@yogsoy cool, would love to hear how you used it.

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yogsoy

2 years, 5 months ago

Thanks very much for the recording mate, gave it a good clean up and I'm using it as a church bell in a show i'm running.

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kb7clx

5 years, 3 months ago

Hey themerrybeggars that's cool! It certainly is, I've been inside a few times when they've had concerts and to hear my step-cousin's piano recital.

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themerrybeggars

5 years, 3 months ago

My brother is a monk there. It's a beautiful beautiful place.

Snapper4298

6 years, 3 months ago

Wow, I'll check it out - get another tag on it for "halloween" and stuff so coming searches will find this :)

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