I must say Koz, I've never seen a jellyfish with a line and a loop at one end.
Admittedly, that's an oddity, but you don't start out designing test equipment making it as restrictive as possible. There are exceptions, like making your Fluke test voltmeter not respond to radio waves. That's a pretty obvious desirable restriction.
I bet you've seen one with straight up-and-down or side-to-side segments from each tip. One channel clipping.
If I did, then I'd have no idea what the fault was causing it.
But you would certainly know there was something off. So the test succeeded.
What it tells me is that the negative going response in the left channel is different to that in the right channel.
It tells me a lot more than that. There is a very unusual error that only displays on some negative peaks.
If I'd used my recommended practice of using a mono track for mono recordings, then it shows there is an equipment fault.
Or more broadly, a system equipment fault which is what happened in this case.
If the jellyfish is incorporated into the recording software (Audacity) then it tells me that the jellyfish is broken.
It tells me to look at where the show came from, soundcard problems, etc, and more importantly, that the show probably arrived as two-track mono, not "real" mono.
When you're troubleshooting from nine time zones away, every little helps.
So, you get some weird response in the Jellyfish and call out the engineers and local deities to fix the problem. How does that help Audacity users?
It's not for the Audacity Users. Joe and Jane McUser have no idea what those Audacity blue lines are and what those red and green flashing lights on top do.
One thing that I do agree about, is that jellyfish look really cool, but only when they are wiggling.
Perfectly true, particularly in well-separated stereo. I did a very impressive Dog and Pony once by making a 21"TV do that full screen. I'd be stunned if there wasn't at least one Dr. Who with that in it.
However they maintain 80% of their diagnostic information if you freeze one. And it's fast. Good INFO density
If the device is providing vital information, then how do we make that information available for visually impaired users?
Useful, not vital. The same way we do it with the Spectrogram View?
Historically, the audio vectorscope was a natural progression of the CRT oscilloscope. "What happens if I plug the other channel in here...?" It pre-dates the television, and is often more entertaining.
I've often said I can get more entertainment value out of the back of a TV than the front.
it may be nice to watch that funny little wiggly thing, but it would probably be more useful to have the information spelled out in a form that does not require consulting the Oracle and casting bones. What information do you want?
No way to predict. Both? I don't see how you're going to avoid the My Eyes Glaze Over problem, but it's worth a shot. Until then, run this tool and attach a screen grab.
Koz
