Setting the standard for ultrasonic wildlife recorders.
Specially engineered to capture quality ultrasonic bat recordings, the Song Meter SM4BAT is the industry-leading bat detector and recorder.
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Also requires external microphone
With the ability to store terabytes of data and the battery life to record in the field for weeks at a time, the Song Meter SM4BAT FS gives scientists a flexible, reliable tool for conducting bat surveys.
- Industry standard line of ultrasonic bat audio recorders, with over 20,000 SM4 family recorders sold to date
- Proven and reliable, with only 0.64% of recorders requiring in-warranty repairs
- 3-year warranty
- Weatherproof design suitable for any environment
- Designed for use with the low-noise, waterproof SMM-U2 microphone
- Built-in fail-safe and fault-tolerant tech, including two flash cards for failover and extensive internal diagnostics
- Compact, at 8.6” x 6.0” x 3.1” (218 mm x 152 mm x 78 mm)
- Extended field deployments, with up to 48 ten-hour nights of battery life using alkaline batteries, or even longer using external power.
- Choose a quick-start schedule or easily create your own
- GPS attachment allows you to set date, time and location for multiple recorders
- Advanced triggering to record only when bats are present
- Optional noise scrubber automatically deletes false triggers that do not contain bats
- Optional 16 kHz high pass filter to reduce lower frequency noise
- Capable of storing terabytes of data on two SDHC/SDXC flash cards
- Save card space via W4V compression, doubling the capacity of SD cards without degrading recording quality
- Compatible with Kaleidoscope Pro software to quickly review recordings and automatically suggest bat species in North America, Europe, South Africa, and the Neotropics.
