Klarinet Archive - Posting 000472.txt from 1997/11

From: Douglas Sears <dsears@-----.org>
Subj: Re: Scoping the clarinet
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:11:09 -0500

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Martin Pergler wrote:

> In response to my message earlier, several people have asked what
> set-up I use for "putting the clarinet on an oscilloscope".
> The answer is nothing complicated.
>
> I have an IBM-type notebook running Win 3.1 with internal
> SoundBlaster-type audio. It has a built-in mike but I actually
> plug in a Sony ECM 737 stereo mike.

I think it bears noting that the wave shapes you see on your
oscilloscope have been subjected to the same microphone distortions
that are under discussion. It would be interesting to run the same
clarinet sound through several different microphones and different
preamps and see if your Fourier analysis shows a difference.

--Doug

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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears