Live on tape...

[Flightstopper]

The xeno link you put up earlier worked for me and never asked for payment.

[Rick]

The xeno link you put up earlier worked for me and never asked for payment.

Appears I need to work on my writing skills, as it was not xeno-canto but Cornell's Macaulay Library that used to have some sort of subscription or membership block to free access. Cornell is where DU got their files, but when I tried to follow that lead some time back, I hit the road block and was too cheap or poor to pay the toll. Some xeno-canto species listings, however, include links to other references, including the Macaulay Library, and using that link got you in to that species' listing there without charge, but not to then access other species. Finding the barrier lifted was a nice surprise.

[KyMike]

Wow. More sound files then I've ver seen. Thanks again for the links.

[banknote]

I've spent a lot of the past week listening to Rick's link and mimicking mallard sounds. Here's me last night. Four tracks of me out back practicing, all mixed together. Some of it's cringe-worthy, but I feel like I'm starting to get better.

https://soundcloud.com/ed-hepp/duck-calling-practice

[Flightstopper]

Sounds like it'd work just fine. What else is going on in the recording? A second caller?

[banknote]

Sounds like it'd work just fine. What else is going on in the recording? A second caller?

Thanks. It's all me, just recorded myself 4 times with my phone and mixed the tracks together in Garageband on the Mac.

[Rick]

The mix makes it a little hard to tell how it will translate in the field, but I really like the little clucks and chucks and some of the greetings. Other greetings are a skosh off plumb to my ear - but I ain't who/what it needs to impress.

[banknote]

The mix makes it a little hard to tell how it will translate in the field, but I really like the little clucks and chucks and some of the greetings. Other greetings are a skosh off plumb to my ear - but I ain't who/what it needs to impress.

Yeah they're off to my ear, too. I keep going back to certain files on your link to realign and it's a big help. Hopefully I'll be more consistent come October.

I recorded this outside, with the phone about 20' away. When I record inside, it sounds a lot different in tone and it's too harsh, like you can hear the reed smacking the board. Practicing in my truck sounds the same and I don't like it as much as sitting out by the river. Some nights when there's no wind, I can sit across form a moored ship and get a perfect echo off its hull, giving me a listen to what I sound like 1/4-1/2 mile away.

[Goldfish]

Kinda sounds like you squeak a couple of the high notes, but there is a lot going on in there to try and listen to