Also check out Spear
http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/ <http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/>
which is a lot of fun with spectral editing for zero dollars.
> On Mar 2, 2017, at 12:51 AM, Matt Rogalsky [naturerec=
ordists] <> wrote:
>
>
> Bernie =97 thanks very much for the suggestions, and thanks to Dan Dugan =
and Michael Trommer who have commented too. I didn=92t mean to send my quer=
y to the entire list, but there you go!
>
> Nice stories from Algonquin Park. I guess you never ran into Gunn in the =
1950s? He would have been the head of the Wildlife Research Station there a=
round that time. The history of the park is fascinating =97 beginning with =
its total logging in the 1800s before it became Canada=92s first provincial=
park and a revered =93nature destination=94, to the exclusion of First Nat=
ions peoples from their traditional lands. The Algonquin peoples' land clai=
m is ongoing and covers a huge area, while logging continues in about 3% of=
the park annually.
>
> It sounds like Melodyne isn=92t going to do what I want. I didn=92t know =
before about Spectralayers =97 that looks very promising, for this project =
and 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=
.com/plugins/spectro/>
> Quite nice but a bit frustrating as the plugin window doesn=92t seem to b=
e re-sizable.
>
> best,
> MattR
>
>> On Mar 1, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Bernie Krause <mail=
to:> [naturerecordists] <=
s.com <>> wrote:
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>> Not sure if you can actually do that, Matt. I just got the software and =
have spent very little time with it. Technically, it might be possible and =
there 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 =
quality of the recording, one of the apps you might try is Adobe Audition (=
spectrogram mode). I=92ve been able to abstract individual signals (birds, =
amphibians, insects, mammals) out of the biophony, often with pretty remark=
able results, reassembling them in a quasi-stereo format, while, at the sam=
e 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 =
recent 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 =
and paddled with 11 others from the Brent/Lavier Circuit in the north, all =
the way to James Bay from late July to late August.=85about 300 miles. Exce=
pt for those in our group, we never saw another human, a road, a car, a pla=
ne, in 30 days. The waters were so clear that you could see fish 20 or so f=
eet below the surface of the water.
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