Category Archives: Digital Audio

How many bits can you hear? video

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Nigel Redmon

A listening test in video form. On the plus side, it’s helpful to see the spectrum as it’s playing, and a peak meter to see how the sweeps compare to each other, and to the announcing voice. On the minus … Continue reading →

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A listening test

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Nigel Redmon

Click to play in your browser, or right-click-download to play as you wish (24-bit .wav file): multi-level sweeps.wav I call this a listening test, because it involves your ears, equipment, and even environment. Any of these can influence your limits … Continue reading →

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Biquad calculator v3

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Nigel Redmon

The latest version of the biquad calculator. It also takes on the functionality of the frequency response grapher:

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Time resolution in digital audio

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Nigel Redmon

I’ve been involved in several discussions on timing resolution in digital audio, recently—honestly, I never knew it was a concern before. For example, in a video on MQA, the host explained that standard audio sample rates (44.1 and 48 kHz) … Continue reading →

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Amplitude Modulation Principles and Interactive Widget video

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Nigel Redmon

This video demonstrates important uses of AM—and serves as a demonstration of using the AM widget.

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Further thoughts on wave table oscillators

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Nigel Redmon

I see regular questions about wave table oscillators in various forums. While the process is straight forward, I sympathize that it’s not so simple to figure out what’s important if you really want to understand how it works. For instance, … Continue reading →

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WaveUtils updated

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Nigel Redmon

WaveUtils needed only a minor change for compatibility with the WaveTableOsc update—addWaveTable changes to AddWaveTable. But I added something new while I was at it. The original wave table articles advocated minimizing the number of tables necessary—one per octave—by allowing … Continue reading →

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WaveTableOsc optimized

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Nigel Redmon

The wave table oscillator developed here in 2012 is pretty lightweight, but I never took a close look at optimization at the time. An efficient design is the number one optimization, and it already had that. I was curious how … Continue reading →

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Wavetable signal to noise ratio

Posted on September 22, 2018 by Nigel Redmon

In our wavetable series, we discussed what size our wavetables needed to be in order to give us an appropriate number of harmonics. But since we interpolated between adjacent table entries, the table size also dictates the signal to noise … Continue reading →

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Sampling theory, the best explanation you’ve ever heard—End notes

Posted on September 21, 2018 by Nigel Redmon

A few words before moving on to other topics… We’ve looked at why digital sample represent ideal impulses, and why any point between samples represents a value of zero. And, as a result, audio samples don’t represent the audio itself, … Continue reading →

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