Questions tagged [sound]
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Why is my input from my microphones so low?
I have 4 Behringer microphones (around £20) and a “SOUNDLAB 4 CHANNEL MONO MICROPHONE MIXER WITH EFFECTS“. I am attempting to start a podcast. When I record the audio, unless it is on full blast on ...
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Decibel sum problem on 0 dB + 0dB
I don't know a lot of what I'm going to ask you.
What I know is that to sum different sound sources, logarithm should be used (like the attached img).
THE QUESTION IS: why 0 dB + 0 dB = 0 dB is not ...
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Is my synthesizer too quiet?
My synthesizer (Yamaha mx88) is plugged into the back (which has no gain controls) of my audio interface (Focusrite Scarlett 4i4) and that is plugged into my laptop (MacBook pro) running Focusrite ...
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How to identify a similar or identical sound within an audio file?
Within a large audio file, I would like to identify sounds that are similar to or identical with exemplary sounds that are used as queries.
I basically need a filter which is defined by one or a few ...
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Glamdring sound effect
I would like to know if you have any tips to recreate the sound when Gandalf takes Glamdring (the sword at 2:17)?
Or if you have a similar resource to share?
Thank you.
Regards, Samih.
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Headphones: How are different types of headphones are made or designed?
I am here to ask some technical questions about differences between some audio devices and about them point by point. I am a beginner or nerd in audio devices and sound editing.
How a bass boosted or ...
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Isolating acoustic events in spectrogram in audacity [duplicate]
What is the best way to isolate individual acoustic events in the spectrogram view of an audio file in audacity?
I have some recordings of conversations I need to analyze but the microphone was placed ...
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Trying to find a particular sound from a synthesizer from this song
I hope this isn't marked as a duplicate question because there is another question very similar to this but the song is different.
I have struggle for many weeks to find the exact sound from the ...
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How can you make a “playing in another room and it's raining” type sound?
How can you make a "playing in another room and it's raining" type sound given an mp3 and preferably with something like audacity or a free tool like that.
Something like this:
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How to record ultrastound with phone?
For an experiment, I need to record ultrasound using my phone.
Is there an app for it?
Can my inbuilt phone do?
Is it at all possible (Are today's phones capable)?
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How to quickly understand the layout in various digital console
Well i don't know if am asking this question on the right platform but anyways i can't help it so I'll still put it through. With the rapid growth in digital processing from various manufacturers ...
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I need help regarding hearing high frequencies! [closed]
I am sorry if I am not posting this in the right place. I am a 27 years old guy and I have a very bad ear at hearing high frequencies, I only figure out this today after doing more than 20 hearing ...
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Dialogue between 2 or more people
I'm a film editing student and I was wondering whether it is a common practice to always aim the boom microphone back and forth between the two (or more) people when their lines come up, even if a ...
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What kind of sound frequency which can be audible in speaker but cant be recorded & playback
What kind of sound frequency which can be audible in speaker but cant be recorded & playback.
I want to send a sound file which can be listen by receiver but cant be recorded for future playback ...
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Simulating stereo sound in x y plane
I'm working with some digital sound generation, and I want to work with making 3d sound- in other words, taking a pregenerated wave and using audio delay and slight amplitude differences to make it ...
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Effect of sound waves striking an object
I am trying to understand the effect an acoustic wave has on an object. I have two speakers, one on top of another, and both emitting a Sine wave of 64Hz generated in MATLAB with a sampling rate of ...
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How does amplitude induce pitch shift? [duplicate]
I am curious to know how sound intensity influences on perceived pitch. For instance, if loudness is increased, a high pitch will be perceived higher while a low pitch will be perceived lower. Why ...
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What is the difference between changing mp3 file extension to .wav and using a converter instead?
What is the difference between changing mp3 file extension to .wav and using a converter instead. I am speaking in terms of end result.
I thought mp3 and wav were actual different formats, but an ...
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Sound system speakers
I have a Behringer Xenox 502 sound mixer. What speakers will be compatible with this mixer.
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Does the .wav file created from a .mp3 file have better quality than the .mp3 file itself?
A .wav file created from a .mp3 file has the same frequency domain plot as the mp3 file itself.
However, the .wav file created from .mp3 file has larger file size. According the post https://...
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How can make or find 'timpani rolling' sound?
I want to use sound like this.
Is there any free sound sample, or paid sample?
or some good VSTi?
Thanks.
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Recording soft sounds
I'm a visual artist and want to record the sound of human touch live to be included in an installation artwork. (The very soft sound of touching thread.)
I have no science or engineering knowledge. ...
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How can I extract AC-3 or DTS or any other audio streaming from a bulk collection of MP4 videos simultaniously with FFmpeg?
I want to just extract audio files without encoding or decoding for many MP4 videos simultaneously using the FFmpeg decoder.
What would the git bash be for my requirement?
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How to detect real time onsets?
Hey Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm a Software Engineer Undergraduate. I'm trying to detect drum strokes(beats) in real-time in python. I used amplitude threshold-based onset detect (beat detect) algorithm ...
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Can someone please tell me the names of these sound effects and where I can find them?
I found some sounds from the TV Show "Deal or No Deal" and I was wondering where I can find the full, clean versions of the sounds.
The sound when the contestant accepts the deal: https://send....
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Is the sound really decreasing according to the inverse square law?
Sound propagates according to the "inverse square law", that is well defined here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
So the intensity equals 1/distance^2
Like the image in the above ...
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How do you change the equalisation of an individual song/audio?
I've been looking for weeks, and I have nowhere else to turn to. I really thought this would be very simple to find, but I'm looking for any type of software that has a 5 band equaliser, that allows ...
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How do Channel Sub-groups work?
Stupid Question sorry.
I'm trying to grasp subgroups. Analog board (see below)
So I have the four subgroup faders, (1-4) and an example channel fader on 16.
Let's say I have drums on channels 1 to 5,...
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What is the use of an insert slot in a sound mixer?
What is the use of insert slot on a sound mixer.
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Recreating the Bass sounds of Daft punk's Voyager and Avicii's Peace of Mind
I was trying to recreate the quite similar Bass sounds of Avicii's Peace of Mind and Daft Punk's Voyager. I suspect they used a saw wave and pushing the resonance on the filters, but I fail with my ...
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Is it better a wall close to the sound source or far from it, for max db reduction?
Suppose a sound has to go from point A to B and there is a wall in between:
A -------||--------->B
Is the volume of the sound reaching B louder if the wall is close to A or if the wall is close to B?...
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Laptop won't detect condenser microphone
I have recently purchased a condenser microphone and a mixer which supports phantom power. I connected the microphone to the mixer and then connected the mixer with my laptop by using RCA.
The green ...
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how do I make a song sound like its another song
A while back I saw a song edit on twitter I sparked an interest with and I wanna see if I can do it myself. Anyway how and what program I can achieve this with?
https://twitter.com/Waltmann13/status/...
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How do speakers work?
My brain just can't comprehend how all the sounds and frequencies at one single point in a song (drums, vocals, guitar, etc) can be created by one single vibration of a membrane. All at once!?
I ...
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Does sound lose quality if sped up and then slowed down back to normal speed?
I am trying to research and find whether audio quality degrades if sped up and then slowed back down to it's normal speed, on the one hand its shortening the track so there is bound to be a loss of ...
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How to fix the buzzing noise from external speakers [closed]
I have been experiencing this issue since ever but never knew how to fix it.
When my TV is connected to external speakers, there is a slight buzzing noise from the speakers. It increases when the ...
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Mechanism to always have a specified decibel level output
I'm a novice in this and planning to build a small inexpensive audio interface for myself.
It will have:
1. One AUX input, that can be connected with a 3.5 mm jack.
2. One output, that can be ...
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How do I fix an m4a file that that has no sound beyond the 1st minute? [duplicate]
Now sure how these files got corrupted, they were recorded using the default Android Sound Recorder app. There is no sound beyond the first minute but the file is large showing there is info recorded ...
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Sound Proofing For use of power tools in a room located in a house located in a residential area in the utmost clandestine fashion possible [duplicate]
As the title as pretty much covered, I am a night owl and my mother goes mental if I do anything more than type on my computer. What do I buy from a the local hardware store would be a huge help
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G35 speaker, soldering [closed]
my G35 fell off the table and one of the speaker and the connecting cable got loose (right side). I glued all the plastic parts and opened it up to solder the cable.
My question is: which cable (A and ...
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Selection Shortcut for Adobe Audition
I hope it is the right place to ask an Adobe Audition specific question.
I'm trying to get audio clips from a large audio file.
When I play and pause a sound in Adobe Audition's Editor using Space, ...
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Approximating SPL from dBFS?
I am attempting to try to find a relative measure of SPL using a value of dBFS. Stats from the audio data are derived from SoX using mean/max amplitude values from -n stat
I know there is no direct ...
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Looking for sound evaluation parameters
I have a collection of live recordings of very varying sound quality.
I have graded them in a first pass (along with tagging them) but I'm afraid that evaluation was rather inconsistent.
The grades ...
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New BM-800 Problems
I recently bought a BM-800 condenser microphone set and as i'm hooking it up, I want to be able to use my headphones with it, but the split USB input and output won't allow the mic to work in the ...
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Source moving at speed of sound
What frequency sound would be observed by observer at rest is source is moving away from him at speed of sound?
And Why so?
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Sound Design: water, river, streams etc using a synth
working on a game here and need a whole bunch of water-y sounds like rivers, streams etc .. of various sizes and characters... but given the abstract visuals having realistic water recordings simply ...
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Behringer C1-U Microphone Static Noise In Background
So I got my Behringer C1-U Microphone for my birthday on the 19th of November, and the Microphone has been amazing since just recently, all of sudden there has been a super annoying static sound in ...
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How do I synchronize input from a microphone array to a PC?
I'm using 4 microphones to built a microphone array. To interface them with my PC (running Windows), I bought four USB sound cards and using a USB hub I connect them to my system. Is there any ...
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How can i remove noise from sound coming from my computer mic jack ?
Normaly The signal comming from the computer audio jack should not have any noise.
But when i connect the signal to my oscilloscope i see a lot of noise in the signal.
How to solve this ?
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best material to absorb Sound
The Loft that I live in used to be a city hall building.
The hallways and lofts have very high ceilings and have a horrible echo problems.
I am considering hanging some type of sound absorption ...
