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Subject: Finding Quiet Places to Record
From: "bbystrek" <>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:46:33 -0000
Any suggestions on finding quiet places to record habitat orientated 
soundscapes and in Southern New England?  Getting away from traffic 
and airplanes is a huge challenge out here.  It's nearly always 
necessary to carefully edit out each intrusion.  I feel a little 
guilty about it, but I try to do it without interrupting a given 
creatures call when it appears in the foreground.

Is there any sort of noise survey data out there or public use?  
Perhaps something that can integrate topographic data along with 
aircraft flyways and traffic speed/volume.  You would think there 
would be some sort of noise modeling systems for highway planning use 
to be able to estimate the effects relative to the local topography.  
It's funny, sometimes you can be high upon the top of a hill, and 
hear every human voice in the valley below.  While at other times the 
land is just such that either a highway is sunken below grade as it 
passes through a section of ledges and you would not even know it's 
there.



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