Bernie =97 thanks very much for the suggestions, and thanks to Dan Dugan an=
d Michael Trommer who have commented too. I didn=92t mean to send my query =
to the entire list, but there you go!
Nice stories from Algonquin Park. I guess you never ran into Gunn in the 19=
50s? He would have been the head of the Wildlife Research Station there aro=
und that time. The history of the park is fascinating =97 beginning with it=
s total logging in the 1800s before it became Canada=92s first provincial p=
ark and a revered =93nature destination=94, to the exclusion of First Natio=
ns peoples from their traditional lands. The Algonquin peoples' land claim =
is ongoing and covers a huge area, while logging continues in about 3% of t=
he park annually.
It sounds like Melodyne isn=92t going to do what I want. I didn=92t know be=
fore about Spectralayers =97 that looks very promising, for this project an=
d all kinds of other applications.
Another resource I=92m playing with for isolating spectral regions within a=
mix is the =91Spectro=92 plugin from Stillwell Audio.
http://www.stillwellaudio.com/plugins/spectro/ <http://www.stillwellaudio.c=
om/plugins/spectro/>
Quite nice but a bit frustrating as the plugin window doesn=92t seem to be =
re-sizable.
best,
MattR
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Bernie Krause [natur=
erecordists] <> wrote:
>
> Not sure if you can actually do that, Matt. I just got the software and h=
ave spent very little time with it. Technically, it might be possible and t=
here are many YouTube videos that could probably answer that question. Dan =
Dugan may know the answer to that, also.
>
>
> Yes, I am familiar with Gunn=92s excellent collection. Depending on the q=
uality of the recording, one of the apps you might try is Adobe Audition (s=
pectrogram mode). I=92ve been able to abstract individual signals (birds, a=
mphibians, insects, mammals) out of the biophony, often with pretty remarka=
ble results, reassembling them in a quasi-stereo format, while, at the same=
time maintaining continuity and context.
> Takes a lot of work, to be sure. But the result can be pretty convincing.
>
> Also, I have quite a bit of material from Algonquin Park=85especially a r=
ecent recording of two packs of wolves converging on where I was recording =
one spring morning a few years ago. I first got to Algonquin Park in 1953 a=
nd paddled with 11 others from the Brent/Lavier Circuit in the north, all t=
he way to James Bay from late July to late August.=85about 300 miles. Excep=
t for those in our group, we never saw another human, a road, a car, a plan=
e, in 30 days. The waters were so clear that you could see fish 20 or so fe=
et below the surface of the water.
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