--- In wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com, "sarro101" <sarro101@...>
wrote:
>
> this would be particularly for Greg or Ann:  how can I save window
> preferences (i.e. axes settings) and spectrogram preferences for
> individual files or at least as default???  How can I set to open only
> in spectrogram, rather than in waverform or both?
> Thanks!!!  Sarah
>

Hello Sarah and Everyone --

Here's information about setting Raven to open sounds using a specific
view. There are three options.

Raven opens sound files using the Default Sound Window preset, and it
is set up at first to use both the waveform and spectrogram views.

1) You can save over this Default:
Set up the sound window the way you'd like it to open
Right-click (or View menu) > Window Preset > Save Default

2) You can save a new Sound Window preset:
Set up the sound window the way you'd like it to open
Right-click (or View menu) > Window Preset > Save As
To open a sound using this new preset, select the preset when the
Configure New Sound Window dialog box appears.

3) Alter the RavenPreferences.txt file. This might be considered
"advanced" but it's really very simple...and it makes it so that a
different preset is automatically used without you having to do anything.

First make a new Window Preset (option 2 above)
Then, in the Raven folder, where all the Raven program files are
stored, find the RavenPreferences.txt file.
Open RavenPreferences.txt (using Notepad or another simple text
program is fine)
Scroll down, near the end of the file find:
raven.preset.soundWindow.defaultPreset=NameOfNewPreset
Save the text file, close and reopen Raven.
You can change back to the Default using the same procedure.

Have fun!

-- Ann

--- In wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com, "sarro101" <sarro101@...>
wrote:
>
> this would be particularly for Greg or Ann:  how can I save window
> preferences (i.e. axes settings) and spectrogram preferences for
> individual files or at least as default???  How can I set to open only
> in spectrogram, rather than in waverform or both?
> Thanks!!!  Sarah
>

Hi Sarah,

As Shelagh mentioned, saving workspaces is very convenient,
particularly when you have set up a page and want to continue working
with it later on.

You can also create presets for individual items, including the Sound
Window (which would include axes settings) and Spectrogram Parameters.
To see all the features for which you can create presets, use Window >
Preset Manager. Click on the drop-down menu to see a list.

Page 41 in the Raven Users Manual (which you can access under Help in
Raven) describes options for setting Sound Window presets. This
includes spectrogram parameters, or you can create independent
spectrogram parameter presets.

You can apply a window preset that you have already saved to the
active sound window, and you can specify a window preset to apply when
you first open a sound file. That way, you can apply the same
parameters to different sound files.

Please let me know if you have more questions. I'll find out about
setting Raven to open with a specific view and let you know.

-- Ann

this would be particularly for Greg or Ann:  how can I save window
preferences (i.e. axes settings) and spectrogram preferences for
individual files or at least as default???  How can I set to open only
in spectrogram, rather than in waverform or both?
Thanks!!!  Sarah

Thanks, Randy.  This is wonderful help.

Scott

--- In wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com, "Randolph S. Little"
<rsl@...> wrote:
>
> Scott et al.,
>   Nice Beartrap Meadow ambience and nice website!  Performers in
order
> of appearance: Warbling Vireo (chewy warble), Olive-sided
Flycatcher
> ("Quick, 3 beers!"), Lincoln's Sparrow (suggestive of eastern
House
> Wren), Red-breasted Nuthatch (nasal "waack, waack, waack"),
American
> Robin (scolding), Dark-eyed [Oregon] Junco (trill over brook),
> Wilson's Warbler (fast "tweet tweet tweet tweet"), Cassin's Finch
> (warbly), Mountain Chickadee ("Hey, Sweetie!"), woodpecker
(drumming
> and flight), Pine Siskin (wheezy calls).  Nice cast of signature
birds
> for Beartrap.  I may have missed others in the background, and
will
> defer to Dave Herr on the woodpecker ID.
>   Good recording,
>                   Randy
>

Scott et al.,
   Nice Beartrap Meadow ambience and nice website!  Performers in order
of appearance: Warbling Vireo (chewy warble), Olive-sided Flycatcher
("Quick, 3 beers!"), Lincoln's Sparrow (suggestive of eastern House
Wren), Red-breasted Nuthatch (nasal "waack, waack, waack"), American
Robin (scolding), Dark-eyed [Oregon] Junco (trill over brook),
Wilson's Warbler (fast "tweet tweet tweet tweet"), Cassin's Finch
(warbly), Mountain Chickadee ("Hey, Sweetie!"), woodpecker (drumming
and flight), Pine Siskin (wheezy calls).  Nice cast of signature birds
for Beartrap.  I may have missed others in the background, and will
defer to Dave Herr on the woodpecker ID.
   Good recording,
                   Randy

Hi folks,
I loaded an edited ambient recording from Bear Trap Meadows on my
website.  I'd appreciate if anyone feels like helping me ID any of the
calls.  The site is www.thethirdbarn.org
One can find the recording by going to the following very long address
and going to the bottom of the page to find Bear Trap Meadow link

http://www.thethirdbarn.org/Pages/Scott%20Sherk/sounds/field%
20recording.html

Thanks.  It's great reading about you all.
Scott

Hi Recordists,
Finally joined, and posted some photos for you, including from the
following week when my husband John joined me to bird in San Diego
County and nearby. Picked out some recording equipment but did not get
it yet.  The persistent resident songbirds such as cardinals and
Carolina wrens are familiar yet heard in new ways.
Meanwhile at work (Fisheries Service) I've been doing a larval crab
survey and my group has a study of movements of ultrasonic tagged
bluefish in an estuary related to tidal fronts and prey fish.
I've enjoyed reading your posts,
Keep on recording!
Linda

Hi all,

I finally posted my pictures from the class outings. Unfortuantely I
didn't remember my camera every day, so did not get to document all of
the locations. At least I remembered to make the coffee! I've heard
from several of you already getting out there and putting your new
skills to work! Hope you are all having a lovely summer (or winter for
those of you on the other hemisphere).

Best,
Shelagh

Shelagh Smith
Ithaca, NY

--- In wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com, "jeffmollenhauer"
<jeffmollenhauer@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>      I uploaded quite a few of my best photos from the 2006 workshop
> today.  I had to scale down the photos quite a bit to fit them on the
> site.  Send me an email at MollenhauerJ@... if you would like me
> to email any or all of the photos to you.
>
> Jeff
>

Jeff,  I just sent you an email,  Linda Stehlik

Hi all,

      I uploaded quite a few of my best photos from the 2006 workshop
today.  I had to scale down the photos quite a bit to fit them on the
site.  Send me an email at MollenhauerJ@... if you would like me
to email any or all of the photos to you.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----

From: Eric Cleveland

To: wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 6:06 PM

Subject: Re: [wildliferecordists] Recorded Barn Owl Family of five -6/26/06

Hey Kyle,
Wanted to drop you a note just to say HI. I see you
got back OK. For some reason I really feel like I'd
like to meet your wife and daughter. Strange. It was
so nice to connect with you.
In the meantime, send me your address. I'm getting
together some recordings from my student and we'll
need help with identifications. I'll burn a CD when I
get a few of them together.
Hope you are well. Hope your recording equip. shows
up soon.
Eric

--- owlsperch <owlsperch@asis.com> wrote:

> Sounds like a great challenge Tom. Great to see that
> the fire still burns in you for getting out and
> recording. I am ever so impatiently waiting for my
> mic to arrive and hoped to have it in my hands by
> today but it looks like the end of next week at the
> latest................booooo....hoooooo...
> Meanwhile, I am surrounded by singing birds and
> cringing! Kyle
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: torusert
> To: wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:29 AM
> Subject: [wildliferecordists] Recorded Barn Owl
> Family of five -6/26/06
>
>
> Last night (11pm/49 degrees) I recorded a 20
> minute session with a family of Barn Owls located in
> two story stone barn steeple w/nearby 100 yr. old
> Ca.Oaks & long needle pine 30-50' from shotgun mic.
> (Temelec Community off Arnold Dr. along bike
> path/edge of Beringer Vineyard at base of Sonoma
> Mts.) Very different moving in the windy darkness
> with meters, volume levels and their ability to hear
> you. Prepared ahead of time but gain levels when
> birds are flying near by is a challenge as are mic
> cords. Amazing amount of activity & vocalizations
> with three young and parents rotating into the mic
> zone with dinner. Constant chorus of screamers in
> the dark from mid canopy trees. Clear skies, some
> wind & road noise also made it challenging. Always
> something. (Sony TCM 5000EV /cassette with
> sennhieuser. Great experience to try! Fortunately
> we had lots of Cornell class time handling the
> equipment which minimized the challenges for a
> respectable recording. Cheers, Tom Rusert -Sonoma,
> Ca.
>
>
>

Hey Kyle,
Wanted to drop you a note just to say HI.  I see you
got back OK.  For some reason I really feel like I'd
like to meet your wife and daughter.  Strange.  It was
so nice to connect with you.
In the meantime, send me your address.  I'm getting
together some recordings from my student and we'll
need help with identifications.  I'll burn a CD when I
get a few of them together.
Hope you are well.  Hope your recording equip. shows
up soon.
Eric

--- owlsperch <owlsperch@...> wrote:

> Sounds like a great challenge Tom. Great to see that
> the fire still burns in you for getting out and
> recording. I am ever so impatiently waiting for my
> mic to arrive and hoped to have it in my hands by
> today but it looks like the end of next week at the
> latest................booooo....hoooooo...
> Meanwhile, I am surrounded by singing birds and
> cringing!  Kyle
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: torusert
>   To: wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:29 AM
>   Subject: [wildliferecordists] Recorded Barn Owl
> Family of five -6/26/06
>
>
>   Last night  (11pm/49 degrees) I recorded a 20
> minute session with a family of Barn Owls located in
> two story stone barn steeple w/nearby 100 yr. old
> Ca.Oaks & long needle pine 30-50' from shotgun mic.
> (Temelec Community off Arnold Dr. along bike
> path/edge of Beringer Vineyard at base of Sonoma
> Mts.) Very different moving in the windy darkness
> with meters, volume levels and their ability to hear
> you.  Prepared ahead of time but  gain levels when
> birds are flying near by is a challenge as are mic
> cords. Amazing amount of activity & vocalizations
> with three young and parents rotating into the mic
> zone with dinner. Constant chorus of screamers in
> the dark from mid canopy trees. Clear skies, some
> wind & road noise also made it challenging.  Always
> something. (Sony TCM 5000EV /cassette with
> sennhieuser.  Great experience to try!  Fortunately
> we had lots of Cornell class time handling the
> equipment which minimized the challenges for a
> respectable recording.  Cheers, Tom Rusert -Sonoma,
> Ca.
>
>
>

Hi again,

I know I mentioned to several of you that there is a new Sony HiMD
coming out on the market. It is currently available in Japan & Great
Britain (I believe) but is not yet available in North America. Here is
a link to some photos and info on the machine (the MZ-RH1); you'll see
they've moved the meters & gain control to the side and the control
buttons are still on the front but right next to the side with the
meters for more easy control. The users manual is also available for
download at this site.

Enjoy!
Shelagh

Shelagh Smith
Ithaca, NY

http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-RH1.html

Hi all,

Thanks for setting up these pages, Tom. It will be a great way for all
of us to keep in touch. I've up loaded one picture of Laurent's last
recording session at the course Saturday morning on the walk back to
the van. I have more pictures at home I need to go through and up load.

If any questions come up, please don't hesitate to post and I'll get
back to you all with an answer. I really found you all to be an
inspiring and motivated class and enjoyed my time with you all. Please
drop a line if you'll be in Ithaca and we can give you the 'backstage'
tour!

Best,
Shelagh

Shelagh Smith
Ithaca, NY

I just returned from my travels and was happy to read through the
messages on this list. Great to hear what everyone has been up to.
Thanks for setting it up, Tom.

On the recording end of things: sometimes one just has to go with the
flow.  As a result of this philosophy, I've got great recordings of
trucks, sprinklers, and motor boats in Lake Tahoo and helicopters from
LA.  Yesterday morning I made some nice recordings of wind along the
Appalachian Trail with the dawn chorus in the background.

Scott Sherk

Hi all,
Just joined in and added some photos.
this is a great way of keeping in touch. Thanks Tom!
Weihong

----- Original Message -----

From: torusert

To: wildliferecordists@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:29 AM

Subject: [wildliferecordists] Recorded Barn Owl Family of five -6/26/06

Last night  (11pm/49 degrees) I recorded a 20 minute session with a family of Barn Owls located in two story stone barn steeple w/nearby 100 yr. old Ca.Oaks & long needle pine 30-50' from shotgun mic. (Temelec Community off Arnold Dr. along bike path/edge of Beringer Vineyard at base of Sonoma Mts.) Very different moving in the windy darkness with meters, volume levels and their ability to hear you.  Prepared ahead of time but  gain levels when birds are flying near by is a challenge as are mic cords. Amazing amount of activity & vocalizations with three young and parents rotating into the mic zone with dinner. Constant chorus of screamers in the dark from mid canopy trees. Clear skies, some wind & road noise also made it challenging.  Always something. (Sony TCM 5000EV /cassette with sennhieuser.  Great experience to try!  Fortunately we had lots of Cornell class time handling the equipment which minimized the challenges for a respectable recording.  Cheers, Tom Rusert -Sonoma, Ca.

Does anyone have a picture of the pickle experiment to put in the
photos section?  If I have any regrets about the workshop, it is
failing to get a picture of the elusive, electric pickle.

Hi all,

      It is nice to have a way to keep in touch with all of you.  Thanks
Tom for getting this forum started!  Nice shot of the cruiser!  I'm
still working on the bird photos, but hope to have them ready soon.

Jeff

I took an short road trip with my family the day after our week's end,
and of course I brought along both CD's.  We really enjoyed both.  My
10-year-old brother acted as narrator for the Diversity CD, reading
each description.  We're sound dorks...I sucked them in to the dark
side!

And for soccer lovers, Trinis were sad to leave, but proud of their
perfomance and excited to see newcomer Ghana move on!

Hello all.I don't know about all of the rest of you but I can't seem
to get our last week together out of my mind. So many beautiful places
seen and (heard) with so many amazing people. I feel more inspired now
than I have for several years and I have found a new addiction to
getting up at 4:15 am to catch the pre-dawn (dawn) chorus. I feel like
I am missing out waking up too late, especially as the days warm and
the songsters begin to fade.
The past two mornings I have risen at 4:00am and gotten out into the
field which has been amazing and I was even able to drag a fellow
birding friend out with me this morning. The temperature was 75
degrees f. at 5:30 am this morning and it is supposed to hit 105 deg
today! The bonus was spotting our first Bewick's Wren family in the
watershed as well as getting right up on a Blue Grouse. We also
watched a juvenile Golden Eagle and parent for awhile as well as
experiencing some great pre-dawn songs of Western Kingbirds and
Bullock's Orioles as well as several others.
The only bad side to all of this is that I have wait another week to
receive my Telinga Stereo Dat Microphone/parabolic dish/ Pro-6 handle
from Doug Van Gausig. It's kind of like showing up to the beach on a
perfect day without a swim suit. I must of said atleast ten times, "If I
only had a microphone!" Especially as I was standing less than ten
feet from a Luzuli Bunting with an exceptionally unique song,no
wind,planes,nothing....but him! I know only you all can understand the
pain. Thanks again to you all for all the laughs and good times. A
special thanks again to Tom for yet another grand accomplishment and
yet another thanks to the Cornell Crew especially Dave and Randy who I
never had a chance to personally thank them for all their great advice
and help. I'll let you all know how the new mic works out.
        Happy recording.          Kyle

There we go. This is a great and coll idea Tom. I will post some
pictures of our fantastic week in a heartbeat.

À bientôt!

Laurent

Wow; when Tom moves on an idea, he MOVES!  I hope this will be useful
to the group.  Thanks for the idea and initiative.
Good recording,
                 Randy