Add, subtract, multiply, divide, logic operations ...

[Mark Pulver]

>>Mark Pulver wrote:
>>> If I had two sines, both at 400hz, and *mixed* them, then I would hear a
>>> single pitched tone, possibly SLIGHTLY louder.
>>
>>Three dB louder, if I'm not screwing up peak-to-peak versus RMS,
>>corresponding to twice the peak-to-peak voltage.
>
>6 dB, actually.  More than slightly louder.  (I just tried it, to be sure...)

Not just to single Tim out here, but all of you folk, my head has been
reeling int his since I left work about 6 hours ago... I'm just now getting
a chance to sit back down and say something...

I guess I have to say... Thanks.

I can't visualize it, but obviously I'm trying to redefine the laws of
nature in some weird way, and there're a couple of folks in our past that
would take issue with what I'm (admittedly lamely) trying to prove.

I think the biggest thing that's tossing me for a loop is to understand
just who is doing the apparent amplification when I run the same wave (ie,
*in phase* - Thanks Kevin) into two mixer channels and get a signal out
that's twice as loud. I don't fully understand who's adding the electrical
value of those waveforms... But.. That's for another day; after I lay down
and take my lithium.


Bottom line, I need to obviously bail out of this with a big thanks to all
of you folks. Thanks for taking the time, and thanks for putting up with my
babble here.


I'll go back to lurk mode now... It's safer. :)

Later on!

Mark
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