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RE: viewing waveforms

Subject: RE: viewing waveforms
From: "Martyn Stewart" <>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 06:48:23 -0700
Come on lads, lets keep this group ON topic, we are Nature Recordists, ther=
e
are many other groups that will deal with this.......

Martyn

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Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] viewing waveforms

At 21:20 +0000 6/08/05, Rich Peet wrote:
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>Linked is a image of a tone and its second harmonic at 90 degrees out
>of phase as described by Eric so that you can see why it is not
>symetrical.
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>< http://home.comcast.net/~richpeet/wave.jpg >



And you can hear the difference here, even without earphones
if you're standing close to your computer's loudspeakers:
<http://lecume.free.fr/phase.aiff>.
The first half of the sound is "downwards" and the second
half is "upwards", and the relative perception of harmonics
is pretty different.

Matt


"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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