Hello Marco, and to the orig. Poster,
Ditto what Marco said!
He's explained it very well.
...I don't know Marco, but apparently we are both proud owners of the Ultra=
mic : )
There's also a Gentleman named Mike who owns one, that I know of.
(I've seen his great videos and sonograms, on the Dodotronic site)
-Al
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> > Hi has anyone used the Ultramic 200K is an ultrasound microphone for re=
cording bat echolocation, I can only find a few comments about the micropho=
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> I received Ultramic200K three weeks ago and I got very good recordings.
> At the beginning I found some problems: the signal was exaggeratedly
> high saturating inputs. Talking with Dodotronic the problem was
> Windows 7, in fact lowering the level in windows mixer the signal was
> rescaled in normal level.
> The microphone was recognized as a standard microphone, so no driver
> is needed, it's only necessary to plug it in a free USB port and to
> launch SEA software. Every program able to record from a microphone
> can be used but SEA programs let to see in real time the specrogram:
> it's amazing! Therefore the free version SEAwave has many important
> features and with the buffer it's possible to record only files where
> there's a signal. Another important feature is the possibility to do a
> time expansion of the files recorded so to make ultrasound audible
> without artifacts introduced with etherodyne and time division
> systems.
> Dodotronic is announcing the production of the enhanced version of
> Ultramic able to record at 250khz so all bat species can be detected
> and recorded (ex. Rhinolophus hipposideros).
> I like this device for the simplicity of use and for the price much
> lower than similar devices. Moreover the quality is high and sounds
> comes out from a very low noise.
> Gianni Pavan has provided a spectacular overview of the compressed timel=
ine that shows well the different sequences from two species of bats Pipist=
rellus kuhleii and Nyctalus sp. I recorded simultaneously using Ultramic200=
K and an Acer netbook.
> See Bat Sonograms in the Files section http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/MLrWT=
Qa6SYOfbPUQJPROSYt0NxMN3QTzmkP6z4JnJ8YYMRVXnPE5OZk4aq15nhGqYdMDhGhwQz5d__Kw=
ekApD11LLIhOElo/Bat%20Sonograms/wSpec%20nottola1%20at%20000000.000.png.
> Hi!
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> Marco Pesente
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