Best suggestion is to stay with them, John, at
all hours. Sometimes the shrimp let up a little
and the propeller cavitation noise from boaters
quits long enough for one to capture the sounds
of the manatees and you'll get the songs. I
haven't heard a real good recording, yet. So now
it's your turn. Just takes time and lots of
patience. Stay with it. It's the first (and last)
law of recording in the field.
Bernie Krause
>Hello all
>
>I have been lurking and reading for quite some
>time and am VERY new at this and have a VERY
>limited budget. I am forced to use free or
>inexpensive editing and analytical software
>programs where possible.
>Additional; I have a full-time "unrelated" job
>and frequently lecture on the natural systems of
>my region in Adult and Continuing Education
>programs. So currently I have limited time to
>record.
>
>My question- I am using an inexpensive
>Hydrophone, a Sharp Minidisc recorder and a
>RAdio Shack cassette recorder to record
>underwater ambient sounds and fish-songs. I live
>and record in a sub-tropical region so there is
>much background noise from snapping shrimp.
>Recently I discovered a group (pod ?) of about
>12 Manatees in a brackish water marina and
>attempted to listen and record their songs. I
>was able to hear them singing in the distance
>but the songs were overpowerd by the sounds from
>the snapping shrimp. I have been able to record
>fish-songs in similar situations (because of the
>lower frequency, I assume).
>
>This is the season when I can expect to find the
>greatest population of Manatees in nearshore
>waters so I would like to record as much as
>possible.
>
>Can anyone helps with suggestions on how to
>overcome this background "noise" problem?
>
>If editing may be required I currently have;
>Goldwave V 4.26, Audacity V 1.2.1, Spectrogram V
>6.0.9.1 and SeaWAve V 1.0 programs.
>
>Thank you all
>
>JB in the swamps
>
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