Hi Vicki,
That explains it then; my hearing is shot at those frequencies. It must be =
wonderful to have hearing like that, mine was destroyed mainly by there bei=
ng no such thing as ear protectors when I was lad and working in an excessi=
vely noisy environment. A stroke and a fractured skull didn't help either!
All the best
Max
--- In vickipowys <> wrote:
>
> Max,
>
> No the file is not corrupt. I just tried an analysis using Raven and =
> if I remove all frequencies in a band from 8 to 16 kHz, that gets rid =
> of the irritating tinkling sounds and the recording then sounds more
> 'normal' to me. I suspect many folk simply do not hear frequencies
> above say 10 kHz. I agree the loons are lovely but, even after
> removing the 8-16 kHz portion, the recording still has more mp3
> compression than I find comfortable to listen to. (Sorry to be so
> picky, Kevin and John!)
>
> cheers,
>
> Vicki
>
> PS to describe the tinkling sound I hear, it is like a mobile made of =
> little pieces of aluminium foil threaded on string, faintly rattling
> in a breeze - makes me think of Christmas decorations.........
>
>
>
> On 29/10/2009, at 10:13 AM, Max wrote:
>
> > Hi Vicki,
> > As you are far more experienced than me, I'm sure you've thought of =
> > this, but........... could it be a corrupted file? Have you
> > downloaded another and tried? I'm old with damaged hearing, but I
> > listened again to this recording today, via my Asus Xonar Essence
> > STX card and HD280 cans, and was unable to detect any artifacts at
> > all. If there are any, all I can say is I'm glad I can't hear them! =
> > I've never heard loons before and was entranced by their eerie
> > calls; a real treat.
> > Regards
> > Max
> >
> >
> > --- In vickipowys
> > <vickipowys@> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 29/10/2009, at 4:25 AM, Max wrote [re loons recording]:
> >>
> >>> p.s. to Vicky re her 'tinkling artifacts', out of interest what was
> >>> the file size of the loons? Mine was 9.80 meg.
> >>
> >> Max, file size was same as yours, 9.8 MB.
> >>
> >> Vicki
> >>
> >>
>
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