Well, you don't get much of an impression from a single fragment, but
you get a feeling for changes over time and if anything stands out you
can just stop skipping. It's not a great method but it saves the time of
trying to think of a smart solution ;)
Caspar
Peter Shute skrev 2013-04-08 12:46:
> 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?
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> Peter Shute
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> On 08/04/2013, at 6:28 PM, "rapsac"
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> Hi,
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> 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
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> chrishails50 wrote 2013-04-07 18:20:
>> Dear all
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>> Related to my last question, I wonder if anyone has any great tricks for
>> reviewing long duration recordings ?
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>> 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.
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>> 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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