Hi all Recently, I’ve developed more of an interest in both making and trying to ID sound observations. The problem is that there are a few barriers that make dealing with sound more work than dealing with pictures, so I kind of hate doing it. I have a huge (for me anyway) backlog of sound files I …

I do try to identify sound observations when I can. I am good with the frogs but only know a few insects and struggle with birds. But it is tricky when people upload such poor quality recordings with the note “you’ll have to turn your volume way up to hear it.” If it is a species I believe I c…

I am a sound recordist with much experience of recording on location. It’s really great that so many people are discovering ‘listening’ - honestly, I find sound to be the most evocative of senses for more reasons than I care to mention right here! Playback volume is tricky - there are lots of varia…

[image] upupa-epops: But yeah I agree this is frustrating, like when I’m listening to a quiet unboosted audio recording and then compare it with an eBird recordings and forget to adjust the volume and it’s SO LOUD in the headset. To avoid that problem, I listen to the iNat obs on my laptop an…

For insects of Ensifera in North America, https://orthsoc.org/sina/ has more comprehensive coverage than songsofinsects. I find the BirdNET app much more useful than the web page. It allows you to select portions of audio to submit. When used like this, I generally find it more accurate than Merlin…

In the case of grasshopper and cricket songs, for a good identification you need to look at the spectrosonogram and the oscillogram. With the former you can see the main carrier frequency. With the second one you can count the number of syllables per minute, the number of echemes per minute, and so …

I’ll have to read up more on LUFS, that sounds like something I want my sound driver or whatnot to do. I’ve tried changing my sound settings for “loudness equalization” and whatnot, but nothing really works. As a big fan of ASMR, I love your underwater asmr album! it’s very relaxing.

Like @djcdelahaye , we have used Ocenaudio and found it very effective. We have since switched to Audacity but found them comparable for sound editing and conversion to WAV.

I love birding, so I remember the sound of bird and the behaviour they display when making sound, like some birds sing continously, and some birds sing same notes in repetition, and in audio I can also see number of birds, so it is also helpful to id a birds, and some bird changes place while singi…

Thanks for checking the ASMR album out :grinning: There are some truly spectacular soundscapes out there - trying in tune in!

Sound tips and tricks?

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TheJungleExplorer December 29, 2024, 11:25pm 27

Yeah, that is what I thought as well.

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