Felix Blume's Sounds

Summer ambience in south of France with the cicadas singing

Felix Blume's Sounds

Show Notes

Sound recording of cicada singing during the summer in South of France (Minervois).

Recorded by a setup ORTF with 2 Schoeps CCM4 On a Sound Devices Mixpre 6 recorder Original Recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit

Same sound on Freesound https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/536915/

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