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Re: Equipment for recording inaudible sounds

Subject: Re: Equipment for recording inaudible sounds
From: "rowandrury" rowandrury
Date: Wed Jun 7, 2006 4:55 am (PDT)
Dave
This sounds great (well I hope it will sound great!) cant wait to hear
your results, and thank you so much for offering your body sounds in
the name of science/art!
best
Rowan

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> I have made some recordings of bat echolocations using a simple "bat
> detector" (http://home.netcom.com/~t-rex/BatDetector.html
> <http://home.netcom.com/~t-rex/BatDetector.html> ).  It does a great job
> of picking up the ultrasonic sound of your fingers rubbing together -
> you can hear the ridges in your skin rubbing, which is amazingly loud in
> the ultrasonic range.
>
> However I have never tried listening to anything with the detector
> pressed against my skin.  In the name of science, I will give it a try
> tonight and see what I can find.  Hopefully I won't hear any strange
> voices :-).
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> The detector does pick up the sound of liquid going through a
> constriction - I have heard water pipes buried deep under a street.
>
> It is also a lot of fun to just go around the house/neighborhood to see
> what ultrasonic sound you can find.
>
> Note that this is a very simple ultrasonic detector, it just generates
> is a series of clicks.  There are of course much more sophisticated
> devices.
>
> I'll post tomorrow with the results of my "exam".
>
> Dave
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