Hi, thank you both for your answers. No, the recordings are in .wav format.
They have not been modified in any way as far as i know.
Sandra.
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> What format are these recordings in? Is it possible that you're looking at
> mp3 artefacts?
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> Peter Shute
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> Hello everyone!
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> I am new to this forum, i have looked around the topics, but have not found
> the answer to my problem, so here it is:
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> I got these recordings from other people i am collaborating with, and i don't
> know exactly the recording equipment or the recording conditions (like
> mic-animal distance for example). I get 2 types of odd things in the
> recordings i suspect are artifacts:
>
> - very asymetric oscillogram, and a "smir" on the spectrogram, above and
> under the frequency band
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> - a less marked "smir" in the spectrogram, only above the DF, but going all
> the way to the max frequency of the recording, and extra harmonics
>
> The second case looks a bit like what i get with a saturation, but none of
> those recordings are saturated. I thought, the second case might be a "near
> effect"? if the person put a recorder simply too close from the source.
> However, for the first case, i just dont know!! In addition those recordings
> are from species i have not necessarely worked with before, so i can't really
> tell what should be a "normal" spectrogram for those species....
>
> Does anyone of you have an idea of what it may be? And whether i can still
> use these recordings in some way?
>
> Thank you!
> Sandra.
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sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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