I would love to be able to hook my mic up to my smartphone and have an app that shows sonagrams in real time.
But right now I have an inexpensive workflow that works. Sony bidirectional mic $55 Olympus recorder that records in mp3 ---digital voice recorder ws-500m I also bought a scientific parabola and attached the mic inside which amplifies the sound. On Thursday, June 26, 2014, Tom Auer <mthomasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm interested in improving my flight call recognition and I think the > easiest way to do this will be to hear some of the sounds in real time and > then check out the spectograms. I've used Raven and Audacity quite a bit, > but where I'm lacking is a microphone. > > I don't have the cash to drop on true NFC flower pot mic, but am looking > for something reasonable to attach to my phone, which has done well with > recording recently using an Edutige. However, the Edutige doesn't quite get > the fidelity on the flight calls for them to be identifiable in the > spectrogram. Can anyone suggest a slight improvement up in mic quality that > will get me the ability to capture NFCs? I'm looking at the Audio-Technica > ATR-6550 shotgun mic as possibly the cheapest way, but am not sure if it > will work. > > Any suggestions appreciated! > > Thanks! > Tom Auer > Biologist, Important Bird Areas Program > National Audubon Society > eBird Hotspot Editor for Montana > http://tomauer.com/blog/ > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
