Paul,
What a really lovely recording! Very atmospheric, I just love it!
What luck that your recorder held out long enough to get a recording
even if some degree of hiss was added due to low battery.
(Interesting to know that this can happen!)
The noise reduction seems to have worked well. I wouldn't have known
you had used NR if you hadn't said so. I have been playing around
with RX too and found it very useful, so bought a full copy.
Vicki Powys
On 01/10/2009, at 12:41 PM, Paul Jacobson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> On the way back from the recent AWSRG workshop at Gundabooka, I made
> recording of the dawn calls of Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters at Roundhill
> Nature Reserve in the New South Wales Mallee. These are really quite
> different to the normal daytime calls and quite haunting.
> Unfortunately the batteries on my recorder were close to flat and this
> seems to have resulted in significantly higher levels of hiss that I
> normally get from the AT3032's.
>
> I've tried doing some clean up with a demo copy of the Izotope RX
> Denoiser plugin which seems to work reasonably well, but with the loss
> of some detail. I'm sure with a real copy and some more fiddling I'd
> be able to get a better result! As an aside the spectral repair
> function in RX is phenomenally good at removing things like car door
> slams!!
>
> http://www.urbanbirder.com.au/outback-nsw/spiny-cheeked-honeyeaters-
> round-hill
>
> I've also posted a small after and before comparison with a short
> section with noise reduction applied followed by the original with
> only gain applied.
>
> http://www.urbanbirder.com.au/outback-nsw/spiny-cheeked-honeyeater-
> nr-example
>
> There is also a short edit of a recording I made at Gundabooka
> National Park, in Northern NSW, during the AWSRG workshop posted at
> on http://www.awsrg.org.au
>
> cheers
> Paul
>
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