Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:27:15 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: Bird Calls - not Maryland specific - an explanation. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Folks. Peter Hanan was the guy with the MP3 recorder leading the field trip. Perhaps Peter could chime in. George Jett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Parke H John" To: Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:12 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Bird Calls - not Maryland specific - an explanation. > I got a lot of replies on this posting, which I appreciate very much, so I > thought an explanation would be helpful. > > In the beginning: A trip leader at the last MOS conference had a > device on his belt that he played bird calls on. After some thought, I > decided to try the same thing myself. > > I had previously tried the same thing on audio cassettes. They > worked great, but it was a lot of tedious work. I figured the computer > would take the tedium out. > > Knowing nothing about audio recording on the computer, I > investigated it on the internet and talked to the geeks at work. MP3 > seemed like the way to go. I probably would not go this way now! > > I down loaded the software to record the bird call CD into my > computer. It's called ripping. > > I than down loaded the software to edit the bird calls. The > software provides a visual display of the CD track (sonogram?). From > this, you can cut out the voice, and recopy the calls to make a good long > recording. > > I have different files for every call. I just load the songs into > a MP3 player. > > I ahve a $100 MP3 player that works well with battery powered > speakers. This is what I'm trying to optimize. It would be nice to have > a compact unit that hung on my belt, but so far, no luck. > > I've purposely left out some info because I take this very > seriously. I am very discreet with my calls and always try to impact the > birds as little as possible. If you really interested in details, email > me direct. But, there probably are better ways to do this. > > Thanks again, Parke. > pjohn@wlgore.com > parke@del.net > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================