At 11:13 AM 1/28/00 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:

Tim makes good points - except that paying $300 for an old computer is too
much.  We readily made sound recordings in the beeyard with a computer with
a sound card.

Biggest obstacle is finding good, flexible, cheap sound analysis software,
but that was 5 years ago.  May be common as dirt today.  Remember, you may
need something a bit different than the software packages used to edit music.

Or, you have to figure out how to unravel a wave sound file (its not ascii
text) so that you can get at the underlying information.  Much of the
readily available sound processing software focuses on graphs of the
sounds, cut and paste, etc.  Trying to get at selective frequencies, or
decibel levels, or other sound parameters is harder.  Obviously, most of
the music processing software has to be able to do some of this - its just
not available to the user in other than a graphical display.

Once in a while, I take a casual look - but sounds to me like some members
of this list may have the answers (and I'm not talking about the expensive
academic and research grade software costing hundreds to thousands of dollars)

Cheers