Spectrum analysis in JAMin is incorrect.

David Nielson <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:06:26 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.jamin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
After changing the update frequency for the FFT analysis in JAMin, I 
thought I'd see if I could fix another long-standing complaint of mine: 
the graph never even gets close to the top of the window, so while there 
might be really interesting things going on at low volume levels, I 
can't see them.

It seems like the signal is getting some automatic gain control 
(compression) before the FFT stage, separate from the compression that 
JAMin is doing itself, to keep the visual of the signal visible. Passing 
several test tones through to see what they looked like, I discovered 
this in the 30-band spectrum page:

http://www.naptastic.com/david/jamin-graph-wrong.png

The input being analyzed is white noise. It displays correctly on the 
HDEQ page, but here, well, that ain't what white noise looks like. (You 
can ignore the peak indicators being in weird places; that's from the 
other test tones I ran.)

So, I'm gonna jump back in the code right now, but I thought y'all might 
want to be aware, there are some gremlins in there that it seems no one 
has noticed before.

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