Hardware and Software for Investigating
Animal Sound Communication
Avisoft Bioacoustics
Kirchstr. 11
13158 Berlin
Germany
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Software
Avisoft-SASLab Pro
RECORDER
Tutorial
Downloads
Revision history &
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Hardware
UltraSoundGate
Ultrasound microphones
Ultrasound playback
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Animal Sounds
Birds
Bats
Insects
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Avisoft-SASLab Pro Tutorial
This tutorial describes common techniques for solving analysis tasks with Avisoft-SASLab Pro and Avisoft-RECORDER. It is intended as an addition to the program manual.
Sound recording in the field
How to connect the microphone to the recorder
How to transfer sounds from a tape recorder into the PC
Opening sound files from a CompactFlash or Harddisk recorder
Computer-based harddisk recording using Avisoft-RECORDER
Selecting appropriate spectrogram parameters
Measuring sound parameters from the spectrogram manually
Measuring sound parameters from the spectrogram automatically
Compressing bat echolocation sound files
Recording and analyzing rat or mouse ultrasonic vocalizations for behavioural, neurophysiological and pharmacological studies
Setting up the RECORDER software for counting and measuring USV's in real-time
Textbooks on acoustic communication in animals
See the page on
Audio Compression Effects
, why MiniDisk or MP3 systems should not be used for animal sound recordings that require in-depth analysis.
For information on the distortion added by a parabolic microphone see
Frequency response curves of parabolas
.
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last modified on 05 July 2008, Raimund Specht
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