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A moment with the Hookers

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stormpetrel

August 11th, 2007

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Soundscapes > Nature
-47.99, 166.580
Southern oceans soundscape

Stereo recording of Hooker's Sea Lions (Phocarctos hookeri) playing in a cove of Snares Island.

One Sea Lion is swimming in the front, a second one is roaring in a remote sea cave.
Silver Gulls and Sub-Antarctic terns are flying around. Not far away, there is a small but noisy Snare’s penguins colony.

Snares islands is on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1998

Rode NT4 + home brewed preamp + DAT AIWA HD-S1 recorder
Recorded on Snares Island, 48°0366 S, 166.5500 E, the 27th Feb. 2005, morning

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animal
austral
cave
field-recording
hooker
island
new-zealand
penguin
roar
sea-lion
snares
sub-antarctic
tern
wave
wildlife

Type

Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)

Duration

1:51.346

File size

3.9 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bitrate

296 kbps

Channels

Stereo

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clecle

17 years, 5 months ago

Perfect thanks a lot!

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stormpetrel

17 years, 7 months ago

My NT4 likes the mud :) !
The weight was not really a problem… but I had to face to a nasty buzz when the mic was too cold (7°C-12°C) and the humidity a bit high. Next time I will put some hand heaters in the windshield to solve this problem!

digifishmusic

17 years, 7 months ago

I am impressed you took an NT4 so far from home, these things are heavy...you should let Rode know, perhaps they will feature your recording on their site, it's worth it! :)

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stormpetrel

17 years, 8 months ago

Thks guys ! It was not so cold as Snares Island is far away from the Antarctic continent. I was there to help a biologist friend...

digifishmusic

17 years, 9 months ago

Fantastic! Thanks for this...I feel cold just listening to it...Brrrrrrrrr... :)

So what were you doing at that location with a field-recording rig? Cool!

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