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Re: waveforms

2002-03-21 by mmarsh100

Thanks, Terry.  Glad to know I'm normal :) I've hadseveral replies to 
this post both on and off list.  I will summarize these tonight and 
post them.  I might also post screenshots of the waveforms.  I'm 
still alittle confused...

Mike

--- In motm@y..., KA4HJH <ka4hjh@g...> wrote:
> >Let's start with the SQUARE out: it's not square! It goes straight
> >up, then exponentially down, creating a sort-of fast-attack
> >exponential-decay wave form above zero, then inverts the same
> >waveform below zero.  Could this be why the square output has 
always
> >seemd a little buzzy to me?  Not a bad thing, mind you.
> 
> Your sound card's sampling rate is way too low. Try bumping it up 
to 1 MHz
> or so and the waveform will look very square.  ;-)
> 
> Seriously, that's what a square wave looks like without all the high
> frequency harmonics. Kinda scary but normal.
> -- 
> 
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> "The Mac Doctor"
> 
> "By the end of Chuck Statler's 'Rock Videos' of Devo we agreed that 
even if
> Devo did not take the stage it was still the best concert any of us 
had
> ever attended." --Kim Thayil (Soundgardern), 1995

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