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kozikowski
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by kozikowski » Sat Jul 06, 2019 2:59 am
Actually, that's a good illustration how this works. This is a blowup of the sound at 1/2 second.
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The red bar (lighter blue) is the RMS or approximate loudness and it's more or less even. The green bars are the peaks, tips and waveshapes and they are profoundly uneven. That's how I speak. I did nothing unusual to shoot that.
If you started with a wispy, thin voice, I can imagine that most of the wave might be uneven.
Koz
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by colmac » Sat Jul 06, 2019 7:44 am
I must admit I simply assumed that because it was asymmetrical, that it must be wrong. Knowing so little about audio, it seemed the obvious conclusion.
Having listened to it again, the original file does sound acceptable. The converted file also sounds acceptable. There is a difference, but not a massive one. Is one better? Hard to say. Which one is nearer to the original? I'll never know.
So I''ll probably leave the files as they are and not waste time correcting a problem that I thought was a a problem, but probably wasn't.
However it was a useful exercise in that I learned a bit, and that is always good.
Thanks to all. This is what a forum should be. Help, not antagonism.
Colin
