Will Cicadas Prevent Us From Recording?

  • Thread starter Thread starter JG96
  • Start date Start date
JG96

JG96

Active member
I'm in New York and the Cicadas haven't come out yet but I'm scared. Has anyone had any experiences with Cicadas and tracking? I'm especially scared about acoustic instruments and vocals. :D
 
I regularly have cicada issues... I just don't record acoustics and vocals when they're going. But ours might be nicer than yours, typically they only buzz for an hour in the evening when it's getting dark. If you can hear them inside your recording space, then yes, they'll be a problem - especially as it's a constant noise.

You might just have to schedule your recording around them... you'll be fine for doing noisy stuff when they're going but you'll need to find other times for quiet things, I'd imagine.
 
And, for your amusement... the only known rock song ABOUT a cicada... :D

(Five Dock is an inner city Sydney suburb... close to where I live here in Australia...)

 
This is the year of the 17 year Cicada brood.
The East coast of the US will witness no fewer than one trillion of this species this summer.

17 years ago folks claimed not to be able to hear an aircraft pass over head while all of those Cicadas were singing there *lets have sex/lay eggs/then die* song.

Just record the Cicada this summer for future sampling projects.
 
They'll have to be pretty loud to drown out those stupid-ass motorcyclists with no mufflers!:cursing: Walking my dog last night I was almost deafened by a pack of them. Then later - when tracking vocals - I had to delete one track as a loud one roared past 3/4 of the way through the track. Luckily I was just doing a bridge passage, so only a minute long. Even with all the windows closed, I could feel the engine. :facepalm:
 
This song has a really good cicada tone starting at 0:37. How do I get something similar?
 
I miss them giant bugs.....
used to see em when I lived in Philly....

you can tie em' on a leash of thread and watch em fly in circles...

and they leave their exoskeletons on all the trees when they come up out of the ground....

rock with it...it's a special event that takes place once every 17 years...put the mic outside and get us a sample...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top