If you feel so inclined, please respond to the list as there's at least more than one of us with many of these same questions. Thanks again. Colby
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Chris Tessaglia-Hymes <c...@cornell.edu>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > In the past, I have not used any detectors when going through my night > recordings at home (Etna, NY). I have collected my sound data from the > roof-top microphone (Evans-style, with a Knowles microphone element) piped > into my home computer running Raven Pro, recording a continuous file > sequence from start to finish with each file duration equal to 1 minute. The > following day, I would browse through the sound file sequence by hand, again > using Raven Pro, looking for sounds of interest. Once a sound of interest > was worth saving, as an example of a good flight note for species x, or an > interesting unidentified species flight call, I would cut-and-paste that > sound file into a new window and save it with a time-stamped label, uniquely > pairing it to the file/time it was copied from. > > Now, this is all fine when you are a single person, operating your own home > station, only recording on those nights which appear to have good night > flights. But, when you begin operating to capture every night from multiple > stations, or you want to really quantify most or all of the calls that > night, the question of data storage and data processing becomes the big > issues. > > How do some of you out there collect your sound data? > > What tools do you use for browsing sounds? > > Do you only use detectors? > > Here's a question for probably three people on this list: > > What is the difference between the current Raven Pro detector that Mike > Powers provided settings for and the old BirdCast transient detector? Is > there a difference? > > Getting back to an earlier posting from Tom Fowler (prior to the bloom in > membership...140+ now!), what kind of equipment do you each use for > recording or listening to your sounds? > > I mentioned that I use a variation on the Bill Evans-style flowerpot > microphone. I know that Andrew Farnsworth and Mike Powers use a microphone, > pre-amp, and housing designed by engineers at Bioacoustics at the Cornell > Lab of Ornithology, storing their night sounds on flash memory inside a > SoundCache for analysis later, but what do others use? > > What are your personal home recording setups like? > > What obstacles or limitations have you encountered with your equipment > setups or recordings? > > I realize these are a lot of questions, but I wanted to pose these to the > list in order to help initiate discussion along these lines. > > Information about Bill Evans's flowerpot design can be found here: > http://www.oldbird.org/ (click on Microphone Design in the left panel) > > Information about the Raven software can be found here: > http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/raven/RavenOverview.html > > Another sound analysis software tool, Syrinx, can be found here: > http://syrinxpc.com/ > > Thanks and good night listening! > > Sincerely, > Chris T-H > > -- > Chris Tessaglia-Hymes > Listowner, NFC-L > Ithaca, New York > c...@cornell.edu > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES > > > -- > NFC-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES > > http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > -- > -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html --
