Hi everyone,
I would need a program to see at what frequency the sound is at all times.
When I hear excessive emphasis on voices and instruments, I would like to understand at what frequency it occurs.
What do you recommend?
I would need a program to see at what frequency the sound is at all times.
When I hear excessive emphasis on voices and instruments, I would like to understand at what frequency it occurs.
What do you recommend?
There are many programs that will do that, along with plugins for some programs.
What I use is built into the audio editor Goldwave, so it's not a normal audio player. Are you currently using a software player? Or do you play from CD/Tape/LP?
What I use is built into the audio editor Goldwave, so it's not a normal audio player. Are you currently using a software player? Or do you play from CD/Tape/LP?
I listen to my music through integrated cd.
I would only use the computer as a means of investigation, so I can record the song where I hear some frequencies I don't like and play it back on the computer.
You could buy a Dayton audio tea mic and use REW program and use the Spectrum analyzer option on that program to see what’s playing through all your speakers. You would use the mic near your listening position or you could put it 1 m from one of your main speakers . Doing it this way you could use whatever source you like for playing your music but you would need to computer with the program running in the microphone so that you could see in real time what is coming out of your speakers, and it be a lot more accurate then some program monitoring the area source low level signal as it’s going to be much more different than what’s coming out of your speakers
There's programs available for your phone to do this as well. The phone mic should serve perfectly well for "mid-range" sounds. I have "Spectrum-Eye" for my iPhone - it costs me $15 on the Apple app store. Unsure if it records sound with the analysis simultaneously - perhaps others do.
Curious, is this a speaker issue or a source material issue?
Curious, is this a speaker issue or a source material issue?
Per BillShurv's suggestion you can do this with foobar2000. You can use Foobar to rip the CD to a lossless format, play it with Foobar and run the spectrum visualizer.
Steve
What you say implies the main reasoning,
to use a program to measure from the listening point, this I already do with Arta, I'm not a "big" measure but I have learned that you don't really know what you are listening to because the environment changes the sound, I should measure in the open field and I can't do it, so I try to get by as I can and before or after each change I listen to a lot of music, I learned by listening that some recordings highlight some defects that you wouldn't hear listening to other recordings, so after each change I have a long listening session that I repeat for many days before giving the final judgment.
I open a parenthesis,
Do not ask me to make a blind comparison, any method, I do not love that system, I have to listen calmly several times and at different times of the day, the judgment changes according to your mood, if you have eaten, if you are worried , if you are happy, if you are tired, it also changes when you have a strong expectation of performance.
I have learned to know myself and I know what I need to judge.
Closed parenthesis.
What I want to do now is something different that can help to understand if there are problems in certain areas of your system, maybe it could be a problem related to the design of my speaker or single speaker, it could be bad damping or decay. too long of the sounds, it could be a bad articulation of the existence times of the sounds.
What I want to try to do now is the reverse process,
I have a problem playing at a certain moment of a song, I want to know at what frequency it is, and then I go to look in the measure of my speakers if I find some feedback or at least I could try some modification that changes the frequency response in that area, are all hypotheses that I would like to try.
I have already greatly improved the resolution of the mid and mid-high frequencies by reducing cabinet vibrations.
Now I would like to improve further and get to know my speaker better.
There is never an end to the best, as we get used to the good after some time it just seems normal and then something is missing?
it is our increased ability to analyze sound that allows us to dig deeper and elaborate a more complete judgment.
As I replied to carlthess40, I already do the measurements I have an unprofessional equipment and I am not a "big" of the measure.
Since the reproduction of what you hear then passes from the environment that enhances or cancels thanks to reinforcements and holes created by the measurements of your environment, I got the idea that a complete measurement that describes everything we feel may not have. never.
So I thought the opposite, let's see what the frequency is at that moment and then let's see if I can find some feedback to the measurements (I don't think so) I think instead that it will be more useful for me to understand some problem of bad articulation or of a speaker or the need to reduce cabinet vibrations to an even lower level.
The high end speakers have a lot of vibration canceling material technology.
Yes, I think each of those peaks should be able to represent a note, a small instant.
This is just what I had in mind.
if I can't use it, now I know who to ask for instructions. 🙂))
You could always take an audio oscillator, use the sine output and attempt to dial in the abberant frequency that way. There's also band limited pink noise files available on the internet - that might get you in the ballpark of the offending frequency range by listening - without chasing down an instant in time.
A colleague once described sine waves - versus any other waveshape - as similar to focus on a camera - the better the sine, the more sharp the focus.
Wouldnt the free REW make constant tone output, versus the sweep? Unsure if it does this...
I thank you for the suggestion, but I think it is more useful to investigate with the same musical sound that generates my disturbance.
I mean I have a more accurate reference as an example and I can compare.
A musical sound is a much more complicated signal than a sine wave or other simple sound.
Each acoustic musical instrument has its own different composition, it is harmonically structured.
As a first investigation I want to use the same signal that I hear through the speakers, I think it is the easiest way to start.