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Re: How do we listen?

Subject: Re: How do we listen?
From: "Peter Shute" pshute2
Date: Sun Aug 18, 2013 3:35 pm ((PDT))
David, how do you select the parameters for generating the spectrum? I've f=
ound that depending on the parameters, especially the window size, the resu=
lting spectrum can look very different. I assume one wants a larger window =
size for lower frequencies, and vice versa, but how large? (I use Audacity =
too.)

Peter Shute

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> > David, I don't know what you mean by a power spectrum;
> please explain.
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> Max,
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> It's a graph of the power in dBs against frequency. Pure
> white noise would give a horizontal line, pink noise a line
> sloping down left to right and blue noise the other way. It
> also can be a useful tool to identify the peak frequency of a
> sound like a tweet in a selected section of the recording.






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