On 5 Aug 2005 17:33:14 -0700, wrote:

I think of clipping as in reaching the maximum audio level, not
clipping off a bit of sound. However, I can see why someone would think
that way. I could have sworn the audio sounded more distorted with the
clipping turned on, but it could be I was doing something else wrong at
the time.

It's my fault for not providing much help to people on what
it is. Funny thing is that when I put a switch in to turn
the anti-clip off, I couldn't tell the difference in how it
sounded. No moving parts responds real quickly. I never
needed it in the first place.

Since I don't know the details in file format, I obviously have to
leave autosave up to you.However, the notion of RAW sounds good to me.
Even notebook HDs are big enough not to need compression for the local
file. I only compress for internet use.

Another idea might be an intentional user definable :"snip" at the end
of each segment of audio. Some scanners have an annoying squelch tail
that would sound better snipped off.

Will add that to the list.

Lastly, perhaps the scanner recorder could be set up to either process
"live" audio or audio files. This way someone could record audio with
the Irver or Create Nuvo, then remove the gaps later. I've recorded
audio in locations where it really isn't all that handy to bring a
notebook computer.

A utility tool maybe to do that. It's just that I'm not sure
how to implement it yet. It currently uses "push" logic to
push the audio downstream from the capture to the file.
Processing a file is reversed. It's "pull" logic. It might
be too confusing for me to put both together in one program
just yet.

These were done with the scanner recorder and a notebook computer.
http://www.lazygranch.com/red_audio.htm

This is a typical file with all the warts of mil air in field
recording:
http://www.lazygranch.com/sound/redf...pm308p6mp3.wav
Everything is simplex with constant changing distances. With AM, weak
signals really sound bad, so MP3 recording before processing just
doesn't work. The newer files I've done have been encoded in ADPCM. Not
all that dense, but much better quality.

http://www.lazygranch.com/sound/jane...v_07212005.wav

Here the planes on the ground are very wek since I don't have line of
sight. The audio would sound quite poor in mp3, but is passable in
ADPCM.

You have a great web site. I really enjoyed exploring. Will
be going back there to check out more things. I found the
plane wreck expeditions very interesting and wish I were
able to accomplish that kind of expedition. It must've been
great fun to go to those sites! It reminds me - a couple of
years ago a friend who I met at the RC flying field (Morgan
Hill) had a hanger full of plane parts and other junk. Up on
the top level inside the hanger was a full sized, wreck of a
WW2 spitfire with the tail numbers on it. I went on the
internet and found lots of pics of that plane and made
contact with someone in the UK who had a database of many
planes and their dispositions. He had that plane in his list
as "missing" and I was happy to tell him that I found his
missing plane in the Morgan Hill area south of San Jose. He
was real happy to be able to update his listing. It was a
fatal crash of a pilot flying it between air-shows. He was
enroute to somewhere in Nevada and had a full speed cruising
impact into a hill due to poor vis. The entire (or most of
it) plane was in the hanger and it was really messed up
badly.

BTW: You have my email from the Scanrec about page. Feel
free to email any time if you want to talk about it more.

Anyway, thanks a lot for all the ideas. I appreciate it!!