Amazing mimicry! There's even the sound of pigeon wings at one
point, lorikeets and the rattle of a Willie Wagtail, as well as those
you listed.
Using apQualizr would not cause the noise pumping so I think it must
just be the uneven quality of the wind. The actual calls seem
unaffected.
Vicki
On 20/12/2012, at 5:30 AM, BinauralBrisbane wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> thanks- yes, I applied a low shelf filter at around 70Hz- about
> 40dB using apQualizr in Audition CS6 to reduce some of the wind
> noise and traffic- the original recording was pretty horrendous-
> not conditions I would normally record in.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Tony Innes
>
>
> On 20/12/2012, at 2:47, Dan Dugan <> wrote:
>
>>> Here's a link to a recording I made this afternoon of a Grey
>>> Butcherbird in my backyard using vocal mimicry.
>>> It was a spur-of-the-moment recording so I used what I could set-
>>> up quickly (before he flew away)- a Sennheiser MKH 416 and a
>>> Sound Devices 702- it was quite windy so I just lay on the ground
>>> in front of the camera and got as close as possible- he (or she,
>>> but I think he) sat in the fence for about ten minutes and kindly
>>> ignored me.
>>>
>>> http://youtu.be/4RgA8CUvf5I
>>
>> Nice job, Tony, but the use of downward expansion or some noise
>> reduction process is evident in the surging up of the noise when
>> the bird vocalizes. What did you do?
>>
>> -Dan
>>
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