[linux-audio-user] recording bats?

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

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 ...