Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Field cricket

Field cricket[edit]

Field cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus.ogg

Recording of a field cricket, Gryllus pennsylvanicus, that found its way into my garage a couple nights ago. (The cement floor and cinderblock wall probably accounts for the slight reverberation.) Location: Northeastern US. It being a warm night (temperature about 85F/29C) the chirping is fairly frequent. Recorded on a Sony Minidisc recorder with Sony ECM-MS907 Stereo Microphone, transferred to a Macintosh. From the 1 minute+ master recording I selected a 10 second soundbyte with the least extraneous (i.e. traffic) noise. A high pass filter was used to remove background noise below 2.2kHz; the major frequency of the song is about 4.7 kHz. Finally the file was converted to ogg format.

Field cricket unedited.ogg

Here is the recording without the band pass filter.

A few weeks ago I was looking for the sound of crickets, and was surprised to find no freely licensed cricket sounds on enwiki or on commons. I found some on the internet, but they did not have compatible licenses. Frustration! Then a couple nights ago I heard a cricket in my garage, so like a good Wikipedian I recorded and uploaded it. I have about a minute of the song, but thought that much more than 10 seconds was redundant. I can, however, make a longer or higher bitrate recording if necessary. I added the sound to Gryllus pennsylvanicus, Cricket (insect) and Field cricket; after all, how can you have a multimedia encyclopedia article about crickets that goes into great detail about their song, without an example? It's a clean high quality free recording, so why not nominate it?

Nominate and support. Thatcher 19:36, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, though I'd suggest uploading the unedited version as well, to allow comparison. Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 198 FCs served} 20:00, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- ~~Do you mean the 1 minute master or the 10 second clip without the band pass filter? Thatcher 20:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)~~[reply]
- Uploaded the 10 sec clip without the band pass filter. Thatcher 22:09, 21 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support—In retrospect, the unfiltered version seems hardly necessary, although there may be a verification purpose in retaining it on the page. I copy-edited the Description. Tony (talk) 00:35, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- It's just good practice: It lets people see if, say, the filter removed part of the sound of the crickets (it doesn't seem to have) and provides a starting point if someone wants to re-edit (Probably unnecessary). Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 200 FCs served} 00:39, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Next time I tell a joke, and no one gets it, I'll have a great sound file to play. ReverendWayne (talk) 19:18, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Field cricket Gryllus pennsylvanicus.ogg --Seddσn ^talk|^WikimediaUK 23:34, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]