Paul,
Those Honeyeaters have a honey sweet song!
Kevin
www.7Loons.com
On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:41 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-exa=
mple
>
> There is also a short edit of a recording I made at Gundabooka
> National Park, in Northern NSW, during the AWSRG workshop posted at
> onhttp://www.awsrg.org.au
>
> cheers
> Paul
>
>
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