Finding Latest Files added to hard drive

I've got a peculiar problem here. Since yesterday or the day before my available hard drive space has dropped around 3 gigabytes. Thing is, I've installed nothing, downloaded nothing, nor added nothing to the computer. Is there a way to perform a search or listing of files that have been added to the computer based on a date or date range? I know back in pre-OSX days you could view all new or modified files based on a date or range and plug in a file size too.
How can I perform this search and find what has eatten up 3 gigs of space? Thanx.

Uh, never mind. Found out how to add the search features needed to create the appropriate parameters for the search.

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First off, are your song files in .WAV format? If they are not, then these directions should work.
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If you have some other special setup in the way you organize your folders that I don't know about, now would be the time to mention it ; )
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I know that I am probably overlooking something obvious, but I hope that you all will bear with me!
I have noticed that when I click on the "waste paper basket", it tells me items are in the trash, and how many GB worth of stuff is in the trash, and how much free space (rounded off to the nearest tenth of a gigabyte, I believe), is still available on my hard drive.
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