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I've read in magazines before of people using a crying baby recording to call coyotes. Well, I've got my first grandchild, and after listening to her cry, think this might just work! Anyone else use this, and how did you record it? Thanks. Greg
Well, I tried it back when I was younger and... (you may fill in the blank as you choose.) My first born, a girl, sounded like a superb predator call when she cried. I thought her cry might call critters. Within a week however her cry had changed too much to sound like a good call so I didn't record her.
With our second child, a son, I was more ready and got a cassette tape of him crying when he was three days old. Already his cry was changing from the ideal of a newborn, to my ear anyway. I plugged a mic in the small tape recorder/player which was the high tech of the day, and held it over his bassinette. I'd record 10-20 seconds, fast forward a guesstimate of a minute, record another 15 seconds, etc. till I had about 20 minutes worth. My wife was mildly horrified but she agreed that we were going to let him cry a bit anyway right then.
First time out it called in a coyote. I did it just to see if it would work and have never used it since. Still have the tape of my now strapping son crying.
If you are going to record a baby, do it as soon as possible after he or she is born for the best sound to my ear.