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Our coyote performer works across the meadow, keeping a distance but moving around.
Playlist description:
I spent the night of July 14, 2019, camped near Thirtymile Meadows in the Okanogan National Forest at 6400 ft (1950 m). The area is known as the Okanogan High Country, and for a good reason. Tall, sharp mountains standing on an already high, mostly dry plateau make it a unique place in the Pacific Northwest.
The shallow-bowl shaped meadows made for a beautiful natural amphitheater for recording. With a shockingly low noise floor for an open-air recording space and reverberation that seemed to go on forever (RT60 of over 5.5 seconds), it was just a stage waiting for a performer. Luckily one came along.
A lone coyote entered the meadow from the distant right and vocalized for nearly 50 minutes before trailing away. For those that don't know, Coyotes are extremely vocal animals. They're not the quiet loners wolves can be. They often bark, yip, howl, and more for long periods as they make their rounds of their territory. When it's just you and the coyote, though, it's hard not to feel that she's making the racket as a special performance just for you.
It's special moments like these that I find so rewarding as a recordist.
These clips are excerpts from the 50+ minute original recording. All are unmastered with no gain, just decoded to a stereo image.
For the technically nosy:
Microphones: Double Mid-Side of MKH8040/MKH30/MKH8040
Stereo Matrix: Harpex-X
Recorder: MixPre 6
