[LAU] command line cricket removal tool?

[Rusty Perez]

Wow, I guess I missed that sidebar in SoundonSound about cricket
breeding practices for a quieter studio.

Who knew that when they talked about "sex, drugs, and rockNroll" they
were talking about crickets too? :-)

Rusty


On 7/2/13, Tito Latini <tito.01beta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Rusty Perez wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> Does any one know of a simple tool for removing crickets from my home
>> studio? :-)
>
> There are four types of cricket song: The calling song attracts
> females and repels other males, and is fairly loud. The courting
> song is used when a female cricket is near, and is a very quiet
> song. An aggressive song is triggered by chemoreceptors on the
> antennae that detect the near presence of another male cricket
> and a copulatory song is produced for a brief period after a
> successful mating.
>                 -- Wikipedia
>
> Algorithm to remove the cricket noise (pseudo-code):
>
>   - put a cricket-female near the door of the studio
>
>   - cricketto starts the calling song
>
>   - when you hear the courting song, push the crickets out and
>     close the door of the studio
>
>   - cricket noise is removed if the copulatory song is out of the studio
>
> HTH
>
> tito
>