BOLEX S-221 Technical Information download pdf (Page 49)

a second, the fundamental frequency is 40 X 5 or about 200 cycles per second. The embedded

higher pitched tone is vibrating about 18 cycles or at 18 X 40 or 720 Hz. The sound is a very brief,

low frequency but very pitched, "thump."

Less musical or "concrete" sounds like speech, clicks, buzzes and squeaks, also have frequency and

loudness characteristics. The appearance of these waveforms is less structured and they often

reveal a wider rang of frequencies. Here's a waveform for the sound "s" in speech.

A complex mixture of High Frequencies

Slow

Attack

Slow

Decay

1 2 ... 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 ... 175 176

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