Hello Rusty! The best cricket removal tool of course is someone, who captures or kills it. The next best thing could be playing with phase inverted signals. If you have two microphones, you could connect them both, use one for your recording and direct another away from your own noise production. If possible as striahgt as you can towards the offender. I'm not absolutely sure about all the mechanics of such a process, but it shold work, if the signals are synchronous. Others might have to say more about that. the other option is filtering and EQ'ing. If th cricket doesn't cover too much sonic space or doesn't interfere too much with your intended frequencies, you could try an equaliser. You can sweep the bands and find the sweet spots for the cricket and lower them as much as possible. If the cricket offers a lot of high frequencies you could probably even work with some more drastic lowpass fitlering. that doesn't work for every instrument. The third - and from a technical point easiest - method would be to compose a lullaby or other nature-friendly music and claim, that the cricket is intentional and from your personal sound library. :-) Chirping regards Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html

On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 09:40:50 -0700 Rusty Perez <rustys.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: If you can't get rid of the cricket, try using him as part of the studio. Since the number of chirps per minute (cpm) is dependent on temperature, figure out how many cpm you need to mesh with the bpm of the music you're working on, and set the studio temp accordingly. Voila! Instant chirp track! To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit, count number of chirps in 14 seconds then add 40 to get temperature. Example: 30 chirps + 40 = 70° F To convert cricket chirps to degrees Celsius, count number of chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3, then add 4 to get temperature. Example: 48 chirps /(divided by) 3 + 4 = 20° C So if you're working on a piece in 4/4 that is 120 BPM, a 70° F studio will give you 1 chirp per measure. -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh(a)brainiac.com Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Rusty Perez wrote: 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