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Recordist Profile: Paul Hurtado
In response to my last post, Paul Hurtado suggested that I periodically profile recordists and their equipment, as a service to beginners and those shopping for new gear. I loved the idea, and since...
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Recordist Profile: Tayler Brooks
Tayler Brooks The second installment in our occasional profile series spotlights Tayler Brooks of Brier, Washington, a newly active young recordist who was one of the expert sound ID panelists at the...
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Recordist Profile: Bob Zilly
Bob Zilly, 1/25/2009. Bob's two recorders. Left: Olympus LS-10 Linear PCM Recorder; right: Olympus VN-5200PC Digital Voice Recorder. Bob Zilly of Longmont, Colorado describes himself as a “casual and...
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SongFinder Review
I know I said I’d be gone for a couple more weeks, but that was before I got this great guest post by Mel Goff reviewing the SongFinder by Nature Sound Electronics, a device intended to help birders...
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Recordist Profile: Andrew Spencer
Andrew Spencer recording a Gould's Toucanet, Cristalino Lodge, Brazil, September 2009. Click to hear the recording. Andrew's current recording rig: a 22-inch Telinga parabola with a Sennheiser ME62...
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Editing Sounds in Raven Lite
Once you’ve come back from the field with a card full of new audio, renamed the files, and backed everything up, you may want to think about editing your sounds. While having untouched originals is...
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Editing Sounds in Adobe Audition
While using just a basic program such as Raven Lite will be sufficient for many recordists, you may find yourself wishing you had a more versatile program for fine-tuning your recordings. If this is...
View ArticleThe Microphone You Already Own
Nine days ago, Eric Ripma found an Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush singing on territory in Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota. Assuming the bird is wild and arrived under its own power, it is furnishing...
View ArticleGear Recommendations
This past weekend I made my annual field trip to the Western Field Ornithologists’ conference in Palm Desert, California. Unfortunately, I had little opportunity to get out and make recordings in the...
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