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Home  /  Field Recording  /  Taiwan Mountain Cicadas Recording
28 August 2014

Taiwan Mountain Cicadas Recording

Written by Glenn
Field Recording Ambisonics, Busman, cicadas, Field Recording, motorcycle, mountain, SPS200, Taiwan, Tascam DR680 1 Comment

I recorded some wicked sounding cicadas last week in the mountains. I got stopped by an old gate. When I took off my helmet to have a listen, MAN I couldn’t believe how creepy it all sounded.

I’ve been recording a lot in the mountains recently. Partially because I wanted to hear what’s out there and partially because it’s fun as hell driving those mountain trails (I always wanted a dirt bike when I was a kid!) So I bought a semi-capable over-priced enduro. Motorcycles are expensive in Taiwan!

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After a while though, you realize it all starts to sound the same…for ambience at least. One day I might take my 416 out there and pick up individual sounds, but I’m not really a nature recordist; I just like location ambience.

One thing in Taiwan you can hear a lot now in the mountains are cicadas. It’s near impossible to get a recording without their presence. I’ve noticed they make their noises in “waves”: Slowly creeping up one-by-one until you have a full chorus of sound. Then slowly they’ll taper off to nothingness, finally allowing the crickets to make their noises.

This particular day I couldn’t help but record their noise; it was damn cool and creepy sounding. Here’s the look of the area.

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Beyond the gate a little ways

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And without further ado…here’s the sounds

(skip to 3:37 for ear splitting goodness!)

Taiwan Cicadas in the Mountains: 320kbps mp3

SPS200>Tascam DR-680 (Busman Mod)

http://outrecording.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140821_020_blog.mp3

SPACE

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***On a side note, I’ve been having worse problems with my DR-680’s phantom power noise. I filtered some of it out in this recording, but you can still hear a sort of “waterfall” sounding dose of white noise in there. Oh well…

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  1. Watson Wu Reply
    Saturday September 26th, 2015 at 04:49 AM

    Wow that’s crazy! 😮

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