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Taxonomy Summer School, 1-15 September 2008
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Taxonomy Summer School, 1-15 September 2008
- 7 - The image at left shows the PDA unit assembled at CIBRA with Core Sound components (Mic2496 preamplifier and AD converter, PDAudio CF card, Live2496 software ). The PocketPC can be replaced by a solid state recorder, provided it has digital input without digital resampling. A viable option is to use something like the M-Audio MT2496 just for storage. Very interesting discussion about recorders and microphones are available in the "naturerecordist" email discussion list on Yahoo. Laptop recording Recording on a PC, either desktop or laptop, may have great advantages. Sound devices for both laptops and desktops are now available with 192k s/s to provide more than 80 kHz of useful bandwidth while dedicated instrumentation acquisition boards can sample up to 500k s/ s to get ultrasounds up to more than 200 kHz. For laptop use, USB and FireWire sound devices now allow up to 8 channels at 96k s/s and few models go up to 192k. A 80 GB hard disk can record for about 120 hours with DAT quality (16 bit, stereo, 48kHz) or 60 hours with doubled bandwidth (16 bit, stereo, 96kHz); larger disks and RAID controllers available on desktop PCs can allow to record continuously for weeks. Even if the use of computers for recording, analyzing and editing sounds has been experimented since 30 years ago, only in recent years the PC capabilities and the availability of good and cheap sound devices and huge hard disks have made computer recording powerful and affordable enough. Now, the new generation of subnotebooks and small tablet PCs could further boost the interest in computer recording in the field. Advantages given by laptop recording are: wide choices of sound inputs, sample rates, number of channels; recording duration benefits of huge HDs, ability to schedule recordings, wide filenaming capabilities (timestamp, location, gps position, etc.), sound streaming over either wired or wireless networks, etc. Unfortunately most built-in sound interface are not as good as we would. Thus in most cases it is required to connect to an external sound input device, USB, FireWire, or PCMCIA. As for recorders, the critical part is the sound acquisition front-end made by microphone preamplifiers and AD converters whose specifications are often not clear enough. Again, the “naturerecordists” forum on Yahoo is an excellent place where to search for up to date informations. Besides sound quality, it is also important to use equipment suited for field use. There are many USB devices, some of which are powered through the USB bus; FireWire devices can be powered by the bus but not all FW sockets in laptops do provide power. There are few other solutions based on PCMCIA boards that may have an external box; some of these external box require external powering. In all cases where external powering is required, if field use is required it is important to verify what type of power is required (V, mA, and if DC or AC) to provide a suitable battery system for the field. An optimal choice for field use is when a DC current is required in the range 5 to 12V. AC powering or higher voltages require more expensive and complicate solutions. Download 192.27 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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