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Subject: Re: [motm] waveforms

From: KA4HJH <ka4hjh@...>
Date: 2002-03-20

>Let's start with the SQUARE out: it's not square! It goes straight
>up, then exponentially down, creating a sort-of fast-attack
>exponential-decay wave form above zero, then inverts the same
>waveform below zero. Could this be why the square output has always
>seemd a little buzzy to me? Not a bad thing, mind you.

Your sound card's sampling rate is way too low. Try bumping it up to 1 MHz
or so and the waveform will look very square. ;-)

Seriously, that's what a square wave looks like without all the high
frequency harmonics. Kinda scary but normal.
--

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

"By the end of Chuck Statler's 'Rock Videos' of Devo we agreed that even if
Devo did not take the stage it was still the best concert any of us had
ever attended." --Kim Thayil (Soundgardern), 1995