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Avisoft-UltraSoundGate
High-Quality Ultrasound Recording and Playback

Key Features

• Avisoft-UltraSoundGate is a turn-key system that consists of a rugged data acquisition hardware with USB interface and a PC-based harddisk recording software. Depending on the specific application, various ultrasound microphones or hydrophones can be attached.
• Selectable sample rates of up to 750 kHz with adaptive anti-aliasing filter,
• The accompanying Avisoft-RECORDER software provides a real-time spectrogram display and advanced triggering facilities,
• Balanced analog inputs for high immunity against electric interference,
• Multichannel recording with guaranteed synchronity from up to 12 channels,
• Acoustic real-time (broad-band) monitor (models 116xx only),
• Overload indicator & peak level meter (model 116Hm only),
• Gain adjustment potentiometer either continuous (standard version) or stepwise with eleven 3dB increments (optionally on request),
• Trigger button for quick start and stop of recordings.
• Digital inputs for external triggering,
• Easy plug-and-play installation,
• Bus-powered operation (no need for extra power-supplies, which is important in the field),
• Rugged and compact design suited for field use (all parts have been selected for best performance and maximum reliability),
• Watertight, dustproof and unbreakable transport box (model 116Hm only).

UltraSoundGate Product Family Members

Recording Devices (A/D Converter Units)

• 1 channel : 1 x 300 kHz/16 bit (USB 2.0 High-Speed): UltraSoundGate 116Hb
  (basic solution for stationary lab use)
• 1 channel : 1 x 300 kHz/16 bit (USB 2.0 High-Speed): UltraSoundGate 116Hbm
  (low-cost solution for stationary bat monitoring applications)
• 1 channel : 1 x 300 kHz/16 bit (USB 1.1 Full-Speed): UltraSoundGate 116e
  (low-cost solution for mobile bat call recording in the field)
• 1 channel : 1 x 1 MHz/16 bit (USB 2.0 High-Speed): UltraSoundGate 116H
  (full-featured system for stationary lab use)
• 1 channel : 1 x 1 MHz/16 bit (USB 2.0 High-Speed): UltraSoundGate 116Hm
  (full-featured system for mobile use in the field)
• 4 channels : 1 x 500 kHz/16 bit, 2 x 250 kHz/16 bit, 4 x 250 kHz/8 bit: UltraSoundGate 416-200
• 4 channels : 4 x 750 kHz/16 bit (USB 2.0 High-Speed): UltraSoundGate 416H
• 8 channels : 8 x 750 kHz/16 bit (USB 2.0 High-Speed): UltraSoundGate 816H
• 12 channels : 12 x 750 kHz/16 bit (USB 2.0 High-Speed): UltraSoundGate 1216H

	single channel					multichannel
model number	116Hbm	116e	116Hb	116H	116Hm	416	416H	816H	1216H
number of channels	1	1	1	1	1	4	4	8	12
max sample rate at 16 bit [kHz]	300	300	300	1000	1000	500	750	750	750
acoustic monitor output
overload indicator
peak level meter
polarization voltage for CM16
trigger button
external trigger input
digital input
sync input/output
USB version	2.0	1.1	2.0	2.0	2.0	1.1	2.0	2.0	2.0

Ultrasound Microphones

• Externally polarized condenser microphone (10...200 KHz): CM16/CMPA
• Externally polarized condenser microphone (10...120 kHz): Polaroid/CMPA
• Prepolarized electret microphone (10...120 kHz): Emkay

Playback Devices

• 1 channel : 1 x 500 kHz/16 bit or 1 x 1 MHz/8 bit D/A converter with power amplifier (USB 1.1 Full-Speed): USG Player 116
• 1 channel power amplifier

Ultrasound Speakers

• Dynamic speaker (1...55 kHz) : Magnat
• Dynamic speaker (1...120 kHz) : ScanSpeak
• Electrostatic speaker (25...200 kHz) : ESS 16
• Electrostatic speaker (25...150 kHz) : ESS Polaroid

System Integration

• Multichannel real-time spectrogram display (0% overlap), waveform envelope display, energy waveform within selected frequency range,
• Pre-tigger harddisk-recording with widely selectable trigger options. Trigger event threshold definition for sound-activated recording can be done graphically by mouse,
• There will be no limitations on the duration of continuous recordings (harddisk space rather than RAM size limits the duration of single recording sessions),
• ASCII-format LOG file containing date, time and duration of each recorded event and optional text comments,
• Manual triggering by the UltraSoundGate button,
• External triggering through the UltraSoundGate digital input (TTL-compatible, 2.5mm mini jack). This external signal can also be used to enable/disable the sound-activated recording mode (e.g. a photo transistor directly connected to the digital input for limiting automatic recording to darkness),
• Multichannel recording with UltraSoundGate 416 / 416H / 816H / 1216H with either separate triggering of each channel (separate .wav files for each channel) or simultaneous triggering for all active channels (one single multichannel .wav file containing all channels). The latter configuration is suited for passive acoustic location of animals because all channels are packed into a single data stream, which secures the phase relationship between all channels. Several USG xx16H devices can be sychnronized in order to extend the total number of synchronous channels.
• Real-time measurements of call frequencies that can also be issued by voice messages.
• Real-time acoustic monitoring through the soundcard (heterodyning or aliasing technique).
• Acquiring GPS location data from NMEA 0183 compatible GPS receivers and logging the geographic locations of the recorded .wav files into .gpx or .kml files.

Third party solutions integrating the UltraSoundGate system

• BIOBSERVE GmbH : Video tracking system for behavioural experiments
• SLOMOTEC : High-speed video recording