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What additional inputs are required to convert dBFS to dB SPL?
It is probably very well known that dBFS cannot be directly converted to dB SPL without knowing other information such as the technical specifications of the microphone.
The questions are:
What is ...
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What causes the mismatch between a calculated sine wave and a measured sine wave?
Note: this question has been edited to refer to a sample that does not use dithering.
I recently asked my first question on here, about what I saw in an uncompressed audio file written out as integers....
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Reconstructing a wave which interferes together with a second known one
Is it possible to calculate one of two interfering waves, if the interference (the sum) $v$ and the other wave (summand) $v_1$ is known? The waves have same frequency but may differ in phase and ...
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Formulas associated with Daubechies Wavelets D2, D3, and D4
I want to knom if there exist any actual formulas for defining Daubechies Wavelets D2, D3 and ...
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Inverting (spectrogram vertical flip) a signal of WAV file
What I need is to invert a signal (on spectrogram it would look like a vertical flip) of a WAV file. Actually, of a bandpass of a signal - from 500 to 800 Hz, for example.
This image will perfectly ...
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Return list of wav files in folder that are clipped
Is there any method via python of any other means, to return a list of wav files in a folder that are clipped?
I know that Adobe Audition can tell if a file is clipped, but I have to open up each file ...
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Is the magnitude of the phase shift independent of the volume of the sound?
Sound waves can cause vibration of the particles/objects that are scattering/reflecting/emitting the light. Since vibration is spatial displacement, it causes a phase shift by affecting the value of &...
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Estimation of the attenuation of two waves on a linear sensor array
Context and objective
I am trying to estimate the attenuation coefficients ($\alpha_u$ and $\alpha_v$) of two waves ($\overrightarrow{u}$ and $\overrightarrow{v}$). These waves propagate on a linear ...
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Envelope of a series of pulsed signals [duplicate]
I need to record a series of pulse waves for an experiment. The recording is done via Software Defined Radio (GNU Radio). The pulse waves are modulated in such a way that the amplitudes of each single ...
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How to obtain the wave height "H" /wave period T from the spectral density S(f)
I have the equation of the power spectral density $S(f)$.
I seek $(H,f)$ of each sinusoid which $H$ is the magnitude and $f$ is the frequency.
How to calculate $H$ from $S(f)$?
$S(f)$ is the spectral ...
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How to inject a 2D plane sine wave to the array of seismic sensors?
I've several sensors positioned at various points in the $X$,$Y$-Cartesian coordinate system, and I've experienced a problem to inject a planar Sine wave to the spatially positioned sensors, the ...
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What is meant by discrete time plot with Whatsapp voice notes? [closed]
You might have noticed ,as shown highlighted in attached snap, whatsapp voice notes are bearing a discrete time plot
Is it exactly referring to sampled(discrete time)version of waveform of actual ...
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Finding the mode of propagation of a progressive wave and the velocity of that mode
Injecting a sinusoid say, $Z = A \sin(k_x X + k_y Y - \omega t)$, $K = 2 \pi f/c$,
for example, assume $f = 10$ Hz or $50$ Hz, and $c = 50$ m/s, now if I draw the 2D K-space plot with the following ...
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How are sounds recorded and reproduced (played back)?
Someday I have suddenly got wondered how sounds are recorded and reproduced. I searched a little bit but the information I got was composed of difficult words and contents, so I couldn't understand ...
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Why can't millimeter waves travel far [closed]
So I was digging around 5g technology, and apparently, many people say that high-band 5g can't penetrate buildings, trees, even rain. However, the atmospheric attenuation around 30 GHz does not seem ...
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How to extract the dominant frequency from the audio WAV file using numpy
So, I recorded this audio on my phone while I was running a tone generator on my PC at a frequency of 13Khz, now I want to extract this frequency which is dominant from the recorded ...
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Why does a wave composed of two waves have an FFT with only one peak?
I am trying to find a value from a given mathematical function whose input is supposed to be derived from FFT components. Essentially, I follow the procedure from [1] which assumes that a given sine ...
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Reflected wave in FFT?
I'm trying to determine the reflective coefficient of sine wave. This one paper suggests a method using Fourier analysis. Here, it suggests
Incident Wave = a cos(kx + Constant1),
Reflected Wave = a ...
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Resources for the Basics on Signals and Electromagnetic Waves in the radio frequencies [closed]
What are some good books and videos, to learn about radio waves?
For someone (me) who has never studied Math, Physics, or anything people generally consider ‘technical’.
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Wave Digital Filter Bridge-T Resonator implementation, gives expected cutoff frequency but incorrect gain and roll-off
Trying to implement the WDF in Fig 5(a) of this publication. The response of the ideal op-amp implementation is given by the black curve in Fig 7:
Here is the plot I get when trying to implement the ...
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Efficient Method for Interpolating between bins in FFTW
I'm working on some oscillator classes right now and perform FFT around 100 times per second. The issue I'm running into is interpolating between the bins so there is not a noticeable change from each ...
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Playing sounds with only one frequency at a time
We have a "speaker", that can make a single frequency at a time (0 - 130k Hz). So we can play a tune by making it play a tone for 1 sec and then the next tone for 0.5 sec etc. We can change ...
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Wave Digital Filter Diode Equation?
I'm trying to understand how diode circuits are implemented in wave digital filters, particularly for clippers. The research papers and other sources I've looked at use the equation
$$I(V) = 2I_s \...
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DFT of pure sinusoidal wave
I'm writing a program in which you can synthesize waves by adding to a sound's Fourier transform, and then inverse the transform to get the modified sound. In order to do this, I need to know what to ...
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How to merge 2 WAV files together? Can I take the average of the 2 audio file float values? [duplicate]
I'm trying to do one simple thing on Google's C++ Oboe library: pick 2 recordings and merge both. That is, make as if the 2 were playing at the same time.
Oboe works with Float numbers from -1.0 to +1....
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Reconstructing a sine wave from an interval shorter than half its wavelength
I know that the function that I search is a sine wave of the form
$$A \cdot \sin(x) $$
where my $A$ is unknown. I have samples of the sine wave at discrete points within an interval that's shorter ...
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Hello World Example of a Digital Waveguide in JavaScript
I am just learning about sound so might be jumping the gun a bit. But it helps me stay motivated and get into an interesting problem to solve to ask these more complicated questions.
I am looking at ...
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What do troughs represent in a sound wave?
What's the notion of negative amplitude? I hope the title and the question don't mean different things.
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What is the actual format of this audio file?
I am collecting some data from jotform .wav widget. All the audio files are in .wav format. But when I tried to open the file using python
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How does voice affect a sound wave or its corresponding waveform?
Someone in the physics stack exchange told me to come here for this question. My question is how does a person's voice affect how a soundwave looks? For example, if I say the letter "a" it ...
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Does Radio Communication Have to Account for the Doppler Effect?
I know that radio communications take place in specific frequency bands, and that the doppler effect can cause shifts in frequency when there is relative motion between the source and destination ...
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harmonic waves as integer multiple in spectrum
i have a motor that is rotating with a certain frequency. If i check the frequency spectrum it contains a peak on 150 hz. Also i have peaks at 300,450,600 ... i guess that those peaks are harmonics.
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Types of interpolation used for reconstruction in DSP?
What are the different types of interpolation used in DSP for reconstruction of analog signal from discrete/digital signal
I am able to somehow learn two types of interpolation
1st is "zero order ...
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How to Save FFT output for fast read-in?
For a project, I'm reading in hundreds of short (4 sec) wavefiles and giving them to scipy fft for the frequency information for further processing/experimenting in various ways. Problem is, I want to ...
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Digital signal processing how audio wave and function chage with respect to each other
If an audio signal is f(t) and if i play same audio with 2× speed then what will function of 2× speed signal f(2t) or f(t/2) and why?
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Mix N sinusoidal waveforms without clipping but at a costant amplitude with no clipping and maximum amplitude
I need to mix "n" sinusoidal waveforms which can be all active or some or all can be silent.
The math seemed simple (working with float32 samples) because I just added all waveforms and then divide ...
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Clip wav by PSD
I have the following two things.
sequence_1: Sound file in the wave format.
PSD_1: Some PSD (Power Spectral Density).
I want that the PSD(sequence_1) < PSD_1 for all indices.
How I think about ...
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Where should triangle, sawtooth and square waves start?
I am reading a text on DSP, which shows generation of sin, cos, triangle, sawtooth and square waves. Generated cos waves start at 1 and sin waves start at 0, which makes sense (cos(0)=1, sin(0)=0). ...
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Need help with detecting onset of audio in wav file
I'm new to DSP and I'm learning as I go. I have an audio file with a chirp signal(2kHz). I played and recorded this chirp signal and the recording has a lot of environmental sounds.
Here is my code:
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Why do waveforms that are symmetrical above and below their horizontal centerlines contain no even-numbered harmonics?
All About Circuits site states that waveforms that are symmetrical above and below their horizontal centerlines contain no even-numbered harmonics. Can somebody explain this mathematically, or point ...
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are Ultra sound signal amplitude dangerous? [closed]
First sorry if this question if it's out of topic but I'm very intrigued
The human ear can hear a specific range of sound waves frequency. and huge amplitude of those sounds can damage the ears
but ...
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difficulty in understanding amplitude, frequency and period
I have difficulty in understanding of some fundamental terms as amplitude. Can be there more than one amplitude for a signal? The following expression is combination of 3 sinusoidal signal, so are ...
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Is it possible to encrypt an audio wave? NFL Example
In the NFL, quarterbacks receive playcalls from coaches over their helmet's wireless interface.
Someone mentioned how occasionally, these radios will pick up interference from airplanes, and that ...
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frequencies in sound: multiple possibilities?
First, I am by no mean a sound engineer (as you will guess later).
I was just wondering something while looking at the waveform of a .wav
for a given shape of waveform on a duration of 2 sec for ...
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Extracting metadata from wav files [closed]
I was curious if there is a way to extract metadata from wav files. For instance, can you get bpm, key, instrument, etc. from a .wav file on upload?
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How to Extract a Period of a Periodic Pulsed Signal?
I rercorded a sequence of zeros and ones which is repeated many times. However, the first and the last repetitions may not be complete because I have to start recording at a random time, so the ...
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Windows Audio WAVEFORMAT buffer BYTE to 16-bit int
I am trying to understand audio-buffer processing at the low-level for the first time.
I have the following C++ code copying WAVE-format byte data from capture buffer of Window Core Audio (*ppData in ...
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How to compare two audio files that maybe have been recorded in the same environment
I have two audio files that I think they were recorded in the same room. Is there any tool that can be used to compare both of them. Knowing that sample rate and format are the same.
Thanks
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Equation for impulse train
I am looking for a formula (Fourier series) to generate an impulse train waveform - a spike-wave with amplitude and period both $1$ – so that $f(x)$ has value $1$ at $x = 1,2,3,4...$ and $f(x)$ has ...
