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
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
(Automatically) classifying (bat) sound recordings
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.