Loon night by Lars Edenius published on 2017-08-24T12:49:21Z Did an experiment placing two stereo-mounted Primo EM172 capsules on the opposite sides of a tree trunk, connected to a Sony PCM M-10 recorder to capture the sound of Arctic Loon at a lake side not far from my home during a night with very little wind. Gain was set to high, level 5. I got almost ten hours of continuous recording. It was interesting and a bit saddening to learn how the strong the noise from human activity was even in the middle of the night. Airplanes were flying over, and in the first part one can clearly hear the voices of a party at a firewood some km:s away. The wind picked up from 3 AM and out competed the sound of the loons. I like the Primo capsules a lot, but in almost complete silent environments like this they fall short in terms of noise. But upgrading to something better will cost a lot more money… I compiled two sessions of loon sounds in this track. A +8 dB noise reduction, 6 dB amplification and a 100 Hz high pass filter were applied in post. Genre Ambient