Extra Ears

Application serves as a virtual set of extra ears for a field or production sound mixer, listening for common recording problems and predicting aircraft flybys and estimated noise.

Features include

• Real-time FFT analyzer with automatic gain control and peak highlighting
• Chirp Z Transform brings greater clarity to lower frequencies
• Aircraft noise prediction forecast up to four minutes in future
• dBFS and dBA levels (via cascading biquad filters)
• Flashing ground hum detection (50Hz or 60Hz based on world location)
• High Frequency Fluorescent ballast hum detection
• On and Off Axis estimation
• RT60 reverb time estimation
• Distortion and Click detection
• Noise Floor estimation
• Sample and Hold Noise Prints or average low and average high volume sound
• Average attack and decay rates per frequency bin

Requires Wifi or wireless data connection to receive aircraft location and heading information.

Aircraft location, ADS-B and Mode S data are received from OpenSky Network, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland. (https://opensky-network.org/)