Re: [linux-audio-user] recording bats?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] recording bats?
From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki (rzewnickie_AT_rfa.org)
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 23:34:45 EET


On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 08:35:13PM +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Monday 08 Nov 2004 20:17, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > I just had a crazy idea ... Sorry if this is off topic a bit. Does
> > anyone know what frequency ranges bats use? Would a 96KHz 24bit card be
> > able to capture anything useful from their sounds?
> Depends on the bats, but generally yes. Some of them are on the edge of the
> human hearing range (I used to be able to hear the bats at my parents' house,
> although my hearing is no longer quite good enough).
> First Google hit for "frequency range of bats" is a bit less optimistic than I
> am:
> http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1998/JuanCancel.shtml
> Either way, wouldn't the microphone be more of a limiting factor than the
> soundcard?

I suppose so. I really didn't think much about this before asking ...


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