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Thank you, Steve!

After further consideration, i think it makes more sense to mask/drown out sound at and below the desired cutoff point. Using equalizer to lower the dB level has the unsurprising but less than desirable effect of making everything much, much quieter. I suppose i can use equalizer a second time to bo...

If you mean that you want to remove quiet sounds that occur at the exact same time as louder sounds, that may not be possible. What sort of "noise" do you want to remove? I'm trying to remove any and all sounds below a threshold, determined by a test tone played on recordings at a specified distanc...

To remove sounds below a specified threshold level, use a "Noise Gate". There's a Noise Gate plug-in here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Noise_Gate Installation instructions are here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Download_Nyquist_Plug-ins#install Noise Gate is reall...

The technique you propose will work if you microphone is truly omni-directional, and if the sound level from the frogs is really that consistent. But my instinct is that you are going to have issues with frogs out in the forest that are enough louder, that you won't be able to distinguish them from...

I'm a masters student using bioacoustic monitoring for my research this summer. I'm also a complete novice with all things audio. The question i have relates to distance and volume. Here's the short and sweet version of the background info: the remote recorders that i'll be setting up can detect the...