[LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:47:32AM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:

> i thought the same, until i happened upon the website of a bat fancier
> who is recording his favourite animals with a pimped condenser mic with
> extended hf response, and then either uses the sonographic "voiceprints"
> to differentiate between species, or pitch-shifts the bat sounds into
> the audible range. quite fascinating.
> 
> and it makes me think of david monacchi, that italian prof who played
> his rainforest archival recordings at the ambi symposium in graz - for
> those applications, it might actually make sense (iff you can get that
> extended hf out of your signal chain, without excessive radio
> interference - a rainforest should be a relatively rf-friendly
> environment, if your colleagues keep their mobiles off...)

No such problem a few meters deep in the water. If you want
to cover all sorts of sonar applications as well, pump up the
sample rate to 1 MHz or so...

Ciao,

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FA