Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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 This answer by Dan Stowell states:    Every time I’ve seen this studied, the MP3 compression makes little-to-no impact on the subsequent analysis. However, the papers I’ve read are mostly about … 
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 When performing playback experiments with birds, is there a biologically relevant source level for song playbacks?  I have read that a standard value is 90 dB @ 1 m, however I could not find a good … 
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 Last week I was at a conference in Berlin entitled “Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life”. I was wondering, what other conferences are relevant to the bioacoustics community. I have listed a few … 
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 I’d like to synthesise a series of bat social-call like sounds (that look ‘wavy’ on the spectrogram, (see schematic below). I’m looking to test my acoustic analyses with synthetic audio  , and being … 
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 In an attempt to spare storage, I’m interested in reducing the size of continuous recordings of soundscapes. Are there some Autonomous Recording Units that are able to do this on-board?  More … 
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 I see several papers that quantify animal sounds and include the SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) of the signals of interest. Why is this done – surely a signal wouldn’t be detected if the SNR was … 
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 Inspired by this question on dBs, I wanted to ask about a potentially dumb confusion I always have.  When referring to an absolute measurement value, dBs always come with a reference. However, it is … 
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