Thanks for the encouragement see below:
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>
> Chris,
>
> Thats a nice Crossbill recording - thanks for sharing! Looksl ike
you
> and the Telinga make a good team!
Thanks - looks like I may have stumbled on an interesting population
too - see response form Lindsay Cargill
>
> I have never found anything that helps get rid of
> aircraft noise, as it seems to be broadband, though with higher
> levels of low frequencies. It just sounds unnatural if I try and
> filter the LF out. If anybody knows otherwise I'd really like to
> learn...
Yes that unnatural bit is what is bothering me too, but I'm sure
skilled work with a fine equalizer could help
> > A Crows.mp3 is recorded near the base of the Jura hills
> overlooking
> > Lake Geneva. Crows foraging about 75m away in a cow field at the
> edge
> > of the forest; the Telinga very nicely picks up the echos off the
> > hill and trees, and towards the end a careful ear can pick up
wing
> > beats as one flew away.
>
> I like the soft wing-beats ending this one up. To my ear the
Telinga
> might have lost some of the LF of the crows - either that or
British
> crows have a more guttural call perhaps.
Good ears ! I may have had the "rumble filter" switched on the
Telinga.
> > 3. How can I electronically "annotate" files for cataloguing
> > purposes ?
> I've never found a good solution to this so my metadata is recorded
> out of band on a separate system. I create directories the size a a
> CD called frcd001 etc (for field recording cd001) and dump the
files
> in this, and use an access database which contains the fields from
> the British Library outline
>
> http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-
archive/wildcontribution.html#list
>
> though I don't fill these all in for each recording. The access
> database gives me the search capability and enables me to locate
the
> CD holding the relevant file. There is something nice about
carrying
> the metadata with the file, though seacrhing a large collection
might
> make that less attractive in the long run. It takes my Slim Devices
> server far too long as it is to reindex my CD file collection from
> the metadata, which is only up to 200 losslessly compressed CDs at
> the moment
>
Thanks for the pointers, but its going to have to be a long hard
winter if I am to get the handle on new gear, new software AND build
an access database !!
Chris
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