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Re: Didactic recording (experiment)

Subject: Re: Didactic recording (experiment)
From: "Suzanne Williams" scw1217
Date: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:30 am ((PDT))
An interesting project, Steve. I myself am no good at identifying so 
many bird sounds.  I enjoyed the recording, just for its own sake.

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Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA



--- In  "Steve Pelikan" 
<> wrote:
>
> Friends:
> 
> I've posted an mp3 at
> 
> http://homepages.uc.edu/~pelikas/Warblers1.mp3
> 
> Sorry, it is something like 6 min and 9.3 MB (I could lean on it a 
bit
> more or send it to you some other way. If you're willing to listen 
to
> it and if size is a problem, let me know.)
> 
> This is an experiment to make a recording from which people can 
learn
> bird songs. There's a background recording that was made in stereo,
> and then I've mixed in recordings of 7 species of (new world)
> warblers, each shifted slightly away from equal volume in the tracks
> and usually with the quieter track having an approx 1 ms delay to
> simulate coming from different directions. 
> 
> The recordings of the individuals birds were mono from a single
> microphone in a parabola. The mono recordings of the species were 
made
> within about 500 meters of the location of the background stereo
> recording, and all were made within 10 days of May 1st (though in
> different years).
> 
> I used a compressor like function to slightly reduce the loudest 
parts
> of the warbler's songs and allow me to increase the background (and
> noises in) the background stereo recording.
> 
> Overall there's about 15 or 20 species of birds that can be heard 
in 
> the recording, but the 7 main warblers, in order of appearance, are
> Yellow Warbler,  Pine Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Cerulean Warbler,
> Ovenbird, Louisiana Waterthrush, Kentucky Warbler. (All but 
Nashville
> breed near where I live.)
> 
> When I have something I like, I'll make another version in which a
> voice if added in identifying the birds as they sing for the first
> time; then ship out the pair of recording to folks as a "quiz" and
> "answers".
> 
> I'd REALLY APPRECIATE any suggestions you can offer about how to
> improve this mix --- about the basic idea of this sort of thing, 
how I
> might improve the overall idea or my execution of it, and how badly
> you feel I've damaged the "stereo" effect by mixing in mono
> recordings. What would make it better? How important do you think
> seasonal and geographic coherence are for this sort of thing?
> 
> In deference to comments people made here a while ago about how
> unrealistic it is to provide recordings without anthropogenic 
sounds,
> I've included / left in (towards the end) a passing airplane and a
> backing dump truck.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Steve Pelikan
>






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