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comment How to reproduce any sound
@derobert, Got it. Thanks.
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comment How to reproduce any sound
@derobert, okay thanks - that confirmed what I was thinking. Perhaps you could answer one more thing - I've asked this a few times but never got a direct answer: As all sounds collapse into one waveform when recorded, does this mean that a single waveform can reproduce any sound?
Dec
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comment How to reproduce any sound
Okay, so if you have 12 different 'voltages' (really pressure waves) hitting the microphone at the same time, how does it reduce it to one sample?
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comment How to reproduce any sound
If, at an instant in time, 1 sampling frequency was at 24 volts, another at 212 volts, another at -16 and so on, how would the converter record that particular sample? It can't distinguish each individual frequency immediately and record 5 separate byte sequences for that time sample, so what happens instead? I hope that makes sense.
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comment How to reproduce any sound
@RegGrittyBrick, thanks for all your help in this. If you don't mind, I'll just ask one more question in all of this: Let's say you sample a particular, exact instant of time. A single sample instance of 1/44,000th of a second of a recording. If, in that instance you had 5 separate frequencies at distinctly separate amplitudes at that point in time, could these all 'cancel' out into one waveform? Let's take an arbitrary example with the arbitrary voltages in your diagram above:
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comment How to reproduce any sound
@slim, Thanks for the patience and all of your effort. This makes a lot more sense. I made an error in saying 4 bytes per sample instead of 3, explaining the wrong math.
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comment How to reproduce any sound
@abdias, You caught me lazy. I did the math 255^3 and then rounded it. You are correct.
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