Wolf's spectographic

>From: Daniel Wolf <DJWOLF_MATERIAL@compuserve.com>
>
>After years of working with analog recordings, filters, oscillators and
>frequency counters, I have recently found the Windows-platform freeware
>program
>
>Spectrogram (www.monumental.com/rshorne/gram.html)

This is truely an excellent peice of freeware! Amazing!

>and the shareware programs
>
>AcidWAV and Tune!It

Can you point us towards these? Can you tell us what Tune!It does?

>Typically, I will make 48k samples under AcidWAV, run an FFT under AcidWAV
>or Spectrogram to see if there is any noise that can be removed, and
>carefully -- albeit subjectively -- select ranges and periods to sample.

Have you had any success figuring out the tuning of acoustic performances
using these tools?

>I cannot overemphasize the importance of subjective musical judgement in
>carrying out such analyses. From my experience, any attempt to perform the
>analysis independently from such judgement will be buried in data that is,
>at best, peripheral to the listening experience.

I agree.

Carl