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T.S. Osiejuk Bioacoustics Laboratory

Bioacoustics Lab was initially developed by T.S. Osiejuk and L. Kuczynski at the Dept. of Animal Morphology (since 1995). Nowadays we have mostly equipment designed to be used outdoor for recording and playback experiments. We preferentially use digital recording equipment, DAT recorders or solid state memory recorders coupled with Telinga parabolic microphones or Sennheiser shotguns. Our basic software tools are Avisoft SASLab Pro, Avisoft Recorder, MatLab, Raven and Signal. Below you can find a list of our typically used fascilities

Recorders

DAT recorders: HHB PDR 1000 Portadat Professional DAT Recorder, Sony TCD-D8,Technics SV-DA10. Analogue recorders: Sony WM-D6C, Sony TCM-500EV.
Solid Memory recorders: Marantz PMD670, PMD660, Edirol R-4 Pro, Edirol R-9, ZOOM H4.

Microphones
Telinga 5 Pro Twin Science, Senneheiser K6/Me67/MZW67Pro, Senneheiser K6/Me62; Dan Gibson EPM-650 parabolic microphone

Other equipment
PC Workstations with high quality 48 kHz/16bit or 96 kHz/24 bit audio cards with Avisoft SASLab 4.x and Avisoft Recorder 2.x.
National Instruments AT-2150C (4-channel professional audio card for spectrogram analysis; including NI Joint Time-Frequency Analysis Toolkit).
Complete Interactive playback equipment (Toshiba Tecra with Syrinx, and Avisoft SASLab multichannel recorder; wireless lodspeakers etc.)
Complete wireless 8-microphones array designed for use in the filed. It consist of 8 high coulity Sennehiser microphones, coupled with UHF transmitters, receiver system, 8-channel RME Multiface + CardBus audio system and Toshiba Tecra M1. It may work in the field continuously for up to 11 hours.
Double processor workstations based on 3.2 GHz Intel Xeons with 4 GB RAM 2x300 GB disks and 8-channel RME Multiface + PCI audio system.
Double processor server based on 3.2 GHz Intel Xeons with 4 GB RAM, 6x300 GB SCSI RAID 5 array and external disk arrays LaCie 1 TB x3 + NetGear 1.5 TB.