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Re: Reviewing long recordings

Subject: Re: Reviewing long recordings
From: "Eric Fassbender" eric.fassbender
Date: Mon Apr 8, 2013 3:56 am ((PDT))
I used to do the same when scanning the music collections of friends. You can 
establish pretty quickly whether there is something interesting in a track or 
not. Just skip, listen, skip, listen. With long nature recordings I tend to go 
to 4x speed and then slow down to normal speed (reversing for a few seconds) if 
I find something that I think might be of interest. I do all that while looking 
at the spectrogram so I usually see where the interesting bit was and can 
quickly go back to that position. It is, however, still a manual process ... 
The other option would be to crowdsource the recordings - put everything on 
Soundcloud unedited and ask people to comment on the sections that they like. 
That way you'd have a pre-selection of the sections that people actually like. 
You'd need a lot of dedicated and loyal followers though and it wouldn't ensure 
that what you think is good would end up on an album ...

Cheers,

Eric


On 08/04/2013, at 8:16 PM, Peter Shute <> wrote:

> 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 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------ 
> > 
> > "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a 
> > sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause. 
> > 
> > Yahoo! Groups Links 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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