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Art 321
Sound, Audio, Acoustics
Dr. J. Parker
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Sound
What we hear as sound is caused by rapid changes in air pressure!
It is thought of as a wave, but that can be confusing since we are immersed in the medium. A wave seems to be on the surface.
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Sound is 3D
Sound sources is at the centre of a sphere.
Pressure changes (higher, lower, higher …) move outwards from the source.
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Pressure and Amplitude
Loudness is a matter of how big the pressure change is.
If we let normal ambient air pressure be 0, then sound amplitude is +x to –x for some way to measure pressure. Air pumps at gas stations here use Pascals, but we can use whatever we like.
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PHYSICS ALERT !!
1 Pascal = 1 Newton per square metreStandardized normal air pressure is:P0 = 2 X 10-5 N/m2 = 0.00002 N/m2 = 20μ Pa. Why do we care? Because a decibel, the
standard measure of sound level, is:
10 log10 where p is the rms pressure
of the sound.
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Who cares?
All sound folks use decibels, or db. You get to know (feel) how loud things are after a while.
Threshold of Hearing (TOH) 0 dB
Rustling Leaves 10 dB
Busy Street Traffic 70 dB
Front Rows of Rock Concert 110 dB
Military Jet Takeoff 140 dB
Instant Perforation of Eardrum 160 dB
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How loud is it?
The sound of leaves is 10 db.The sound of a pencil dropping is 20 db.
How much louder is that ?
10 times!Decibels are based on powers of 10.If one sound is 10x times more intense than
another sound, then it has a sound level which is 10*x more decibels than the less intense sound.
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Frequency
If you stand in one place, the pressure waves will pass you. The number of peaks that pass per second is the frequency.
Measured in Hertz (Hz), formerly cycles per second.
60 Hz = low hum
440 Hz = ‘A’ on piano
4000 Hz = limit of telephone (voices)
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Frequency
If we draw a curve that represents pressure VS distance we can see that sound does look like a wave.
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Frequency
Since the speed of sound in air is a constant (pretty much) then the number of peaks that pass is a second is related to the distance between them is a fixed way.
Also, the horizontal axis could be distance just as easily as time.
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Frequency
V = /f where v is speed of sound, f is frequency.
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Amplitude
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Frequency
Frequency is a precise way to specify pitch.A 440E above CSummed Oboe AOboe EPhantom B 3960
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Frequency
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Interesting sidebar
The speed of sound is different in different media (air and water). When a sound moves from one medium to another, part of the sound is transmitted, part is reflected back!
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Sound can reflect
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Multiple sounds
What we hear with multiple sounds is the sum of all of them.
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Sound Systems/Tech
A sound system is a collection of electronic components designed to record and display sound. Details depend on applications:
Theatre: large output, many speakers
Studio: large input, many microphones
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Microphone
Converts air pressure differences into electrical voltage.
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Microphone
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Speakers
For display of audio.
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Amplifier
Changes volume (voltage/current/power) levels of a signal. Needed to get good sound levels from a speaker.
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Mixer
Control volumes of multiple inputs into (multiple) outputs.
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Complete Sound System
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Recording
How can sound be recorded?
How can it be stored on a computer?
What tools do we use for this?
Where do the wires go?
Why am I doing this?
It is still sound if it is on a hard drive?
How much disk space do sounds need?
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Recording
To record sound on a computer is very simple.
Recall that microphones change sound (pressure) into voltage (electricity).
A computer ‘sound card’ can change voltages into numbers (just as we do: 12 volts, for instance) which can be stored in a computer memory.
A sound is therefore a sequence of numbers that represents voltages (that represent pressure).
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Digital Sound
How BIG the numbers can be dictate accuracy of voltage samples ->volume or amplitude.
8 Bits (binary digits) can store numbers between 0 and 255 (256 different frequencies)
16 bits has 32768 different frequencies.
Called depth or quantization.
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Digital recording
How fast you play the samples back dictates frequency.
Obviously one plays them back as fast as they were recorded. However, more samples per second means higher frequencies can be recorded.
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Sampling
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Sampling
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Quantization Distortion
Quantization is the process of selecting whole numbers to represent the voltage level of each sample. The A/D converter must select a whole number that is closest to the signal level at the instant it’s sampled. This produces small rounding errors that cause distortion.
Quantization distortion increases at lower levels because the signal is using a smaller portion of the available dynamic range, so any errors are a greater percentage of the signal.
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Clipping
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File Sizes
Sampling Rate x Resolution x Number of Channels x Time in Seconds / 8 = File Size (in Bytes)
44100 x 16 x 2 x 60/8=10,584,000 /minute
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Sizes
Bytes per minute, uncompressed.
Sampling Rate Resolution Number of Channels File Size
44,100 16 2 10,584,000 44,100 16 1 5,292,000
22.050 16 1 2,646,000
11.025 16 1 1,323,000 11.025 8 1 616,000
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Recording sound – MAX OS X
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
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Recording Sound – Windows XP
Sound recorder
•To open Sound Recorder, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to Entertainment, and then click Sound Recorder.
Audacity
Sound Forge
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Sound Effects
http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/index.htmlhttp://freesoundfiles.tintagel.net/Audio/http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/http://www.pachd.com/sounds.htmlhttp://www.soundhunter.com/http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/
sound_effects_WAV/index.htmlhttp://www.acoustica.com/mp3-audio-mixer/sounds.htmhttp://ljudo.com/default.asp?lang=tEnglish&do=it