sound decade ?
Henry Kolesnik wrote:
Hey guys, I'm a graduate engineer and have done probably hundreds of
plots on all kinds of log papers. I'm retired and still have a nice
little stack of K&E blanks, just in case I need them. And for the wise
guy, all I want to know is what is a practical application of using
decade plots for sound. Give one example that shows how a decade plot
is more useful than some other plot. Decade info on Goog is scarcer
than hen's teeth so it must be a big secret or am I missing something
about this artifact?
Look at the data sheet of any product. You'll see a decade chart.
It would correlate better with the musical scale if we used 16-cycle
or 8-cycle plots. But we don't, mostly because a century and a half ago
when Helmholtz started plotting responses there wasn't convenient paper
available.
If we had 16 fingers, it would be be an even better fit, and also it
would be a lot easier to play the Rachmaninov second piano concerto too.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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