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Re: Reviewing long recordings

Subject: Re: Reviewing long recordings
From: "Peter Shute" pshute2
Date: Mon Apr 8, 2013 3:46 am ((PDT))
Caspar, are you listening to a short burst every few seconds though the 
recording? What sort of impression can you get from a fraction of a second?

Peter Shute

Sent from my iPad

On 08/04/2013, at 6:28 PM, "rapsac" 
<<>> wrote:



Hi,

I first divide the recording into shorter manageable files, then scan
them using Sound Forge by clicking through the waveform while playing
back. With some practice you only need to listen to a fraction of a
second for each "click".

Caspar

chrishails50 wrote 2013-04-07 18:20:
> Dear all
>
> Related to my last question, I wonder if anyone has any great tricks for 
> reviewing long duration recordings ?
>
> I have over the years amassed enough reasonable mics and machines to have at 
> least two sets (and maybe a third) that can be left out unattended overnight. 
> I would like to survey my local woods and forests and catch some of the owls 
> that are out there that I have not yet recorded.
>
> But my question is how to review an 8-10 hour session efficiently ? In the 
> past I have had them playing background whilst I do other tasks, but normally 
> I can only spend maybe 2 hours doing that. I then moved on to scanning the 
> waveform files (for night-time this works I think): I apply a 100% notch 
> filter below 600Hz to get rid of passing planes and boy racers then scroll 
> the waveform (I use Audition 3)and look for peaks that could be interesting 
> sounds. But as I have just discovered even this takes a chunk of time if I 
> have two machines running overnight.
>
> I know a real field guy would spend the night wandering the forest with his 
> parabola, but I have a day job too.....has anyone else faced this ?
>
> Thanks for any tips or ideas.
>
> Chris
> http://www.wildechoes.org
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