Exploring Audacity's Spectrogram View

[@60Minga]

The Bob Ross of Sound? :D Good video, thanks!

[@adamuppsala1931]

I agree. you're a very good presenter. nothing annoyed me in your video and you kept me interested and attentive as if you were talking directly to me.

[@mdthib]

Glad for your attention! The spectrum is fascinating.

[@prestonfernandes2071]

I'm surprised how few views this has. Sure it's 100k views but this video is like a decade old. The information in this was video was so useful and was explained very nicely

[@divyanshoze8962]

Your love and fascination for the spectrum is so evident, you kept me in it for 6:31 min straight. So straightfoward yet creatively explained; thank you.

[@mdthib]

What a wonderful comment! I do enjoy using this tool and have learned a lot with it. This video is ten years old... thanks for watching!

[@hlmdl]

I love your calm voice.

[@hyperborean72]

Thanks to you I finally understood the meaning of a spectrogram view

[@paulmills9901]

Fascinating. Really great video.

[@Diligere]

Thank you for the video. I have been looking for similar explanation for many hours but I couldn't find anything as good as your video, so thank you again. Helped me a lot with my project.

[@mdthib]

Thank you very much! Glad to share!

[@dchouinard5513]

wow. excellent video, thanks for sharing!

[@Adam01Time]

your work blows me away your channel is so wonderful. you digital music is a dream your freedom of the cord is loved. one flat note fixed at a time. :) O always stop for three speeds. All I use is audacity and MIXXX

[@hockeystrokes]

My sincerest gratitude.

[@akankshachuchra]

Very simple and to the point. Thanks for this video.

[@kajah2377]

Thanks for the upload! This really brought some of aspects of spectrogram analysis together into a complete picture for me me. I am in a Phonetic Linguistics class.

[@truthIsStranger]

Had to find a good spectrograph to satisfy myself with an urban legend. All I needed was in the description, but as long as this guy's around, I might as well learn something! Reminds me a little of Bob Ross. Fun to learn.

[@CRMayerCo]

Thanks. Very instructive.

[@asmokanu]

amazing details! enjoyed it

[@ambujjain6737]

Thank you for making this video. It clearly illustrates spectogram view for odd sounds. I am facing a real problem when such sounds a are mixed with human voice. Is there a way in audacity to eliminate such unwanted sounds from human sound in recordings. That would be a great help. Thanks.

[@tij6032]

Thanks for that. I found that surprisingly fascinating and very informative. You have a great presenting style too. Thank YOU.

[@mdthib]

Thanks!

[@mdthib]

You can use Audacity for noise reduction, but I'm not aware of using the spectrogram view for that.

[@thordurhallgrim]

"Music is the becoming of sound" -Gerard Grisey

[@SunriseAt2008]

Thank you! Interesting to read the Short Time Fourier Transform as well. The STFT formula gives a spectrogram with three dimensions: magnitude as a function of time and frequency.

[@PierAisa]

Very straighforward !! Thanks. Do you know if audacity can plot Left channel versus Right channel in a graph, like the XY view of an oscilloscope ?

[@Alaprine]

Well done!

[@amolondhe]

this is really very nice video. Thanks for uploading!!!

[@leelarobinson4918]

Thank you a lot! I am conducting a science fair project on animal accents and understading the spectrogram better helps a ton!!!

[@anagames4601]

this feels like an asmr

[@alltalknodo]

please tell me if theres any chance of selecting the sounds according to the color in the spectrum?? I am trying to eliminate a few difficult spikes in speech, but i can't just silence it because it would damage the voice....

[@jasonjellie9342]

Nice video. 2 questions Can u use it to pick up room acoustics in speech? When looking at eq in your voice, Can you look at frequencies below 1k?

[@mdthib]

Everything on the recording can be seen, you set the frequency floor and ceiling in preferences.

[@jasonjellie9342]

@@mdthib ok thanks. This is so useful

[@RossYlitalo]

Very nicely done! Thanks!

[@kewlking]

Great video - excellent explanation.

[@kibagamij777]

Than you so much for this video! It's a brilliant explanation.

[@mdthib]

Thanks!

[@clintwhite3021]

Very interesting! Thank you. Need to find an annoying high frequency coming from my guitar. Think its a pickup problem.

[@randomuser66438]

Gold. I suppose this helps a lot when trying to get hid of ambient noise and reverberation in voice overs

[@ElizabethDwelleJewelry]

Very cool

[@song-lm7oh]

thank you so much sir!!! any software that can do this with a cd played live or to aiff (apple lossless) files??

[@pannkakesangen]

5:10 LOL

[@GioGziro95]

Yeah...

[@t10yobmashups]

Yeah...

[@oimpaa]

yeah

[@QuackersMcCrackers]

Yeah... yeah

[@kiroevdokimov]

Yeah

[@xMaverickFPS]

great explanation

[@Niohimself]

Brb interviewing my cat

[@EsQuizzyMusic]

Hey thanks, man! I never knew that one of my favourite sound editors actually had this feature! Many thanks! =)

[@chongxingan9234]

may I ask that why somtimes vertical patterns appear and sometimes horizontal patterns appear when I use Audacity. Thanks

[@mdthib]

Probably vertical patterns are rhythmic and horizontal may be related to chords or held tones. Try looking and listening. Enjoy!

[@colleenthomas8941]

It almost looks like you can tell the cats' voices apart by the pattern of overtones. Is this true?

[@charan003]

Hey, that video was awesome... is there a slight lag in the video and the sound heard? Please correct if i'm wrong

[@papercandles]

will this work with someone who is using a voice morph? If you want to compare 2 voices, to see if they are the same, I am wondering if one or both is using a voice morph, will this still tell me if this is the same person or not? thank you!

[@SovereignReign]

Outstanding!

[@Digiphex]

What were the cats trying to say in context?

[@pixelpi2255]

The evolution of cat videos.

[@BruceThomson]

- Thanks. 'Interesting. I'm doing some informal research re. helping the deaf. I'm wondering whether a spectrogram could be expressed onto an area of a deaf person's skin and enable them, with gradual training, to hear through their skin. I mean, the information is clearly there (just as it is in the vibrations on the cochlea). I expect you could start by learning to recognise sounds like 's' or 't' or 'h' or 'z' and then learn to recognize words like 'sat' as distinct from 'sit', and 'hat' or 'has' - What do you think? . Bruce Thomson in New Zealand.

[@viviennebibby42]

yes I breathe partly thru my skin .Jim is quite deaf and we have devised means of helping him to see/hear my speech.

[@BruceThomson]

Viv Bibby In case you don't already know, smart phones (e.g. my Galaxy S2) can 'listen' to you speak, and within a few seconds, display as text what you said (but very often with bungling errors of interpretation). I'm working informally with Deaf NZ and demonstrated that to a deaf interpreter who was present during the interview with them. Am talking with a guy at Transcence see their vid at i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/15/video-undefined-223F373C00000578-677_638x362.jpg

[@viviennebibby42]

Oh yes I've spoken texts for years. I dislike my windows nokia but it is very good with speech and takes great photos. Marg wanted to do studies similar to this if you recall galvanic response way back then. VCB

[@juj5442]

good video

[@Longarm0malley]

Very helpful and well delivered. Thanks!

[@johnnychan6755]

Great video thank you so much!

[@rafaeligmpraciano4123]

Thanks for this video. I din't know that Audacity has this feature.

[@ThisCatSoScruffy]

I've recently started taking an interest in to learning more about spectrograms, quite interesting when even the smallest of sounds have their own strange frequency. I wnat to record my mom's cat & dogs to see what their results will look like :D

[@jasonarthur6602]

good job man. Cool tutorial.

[@alien3119mobile]

Great video! :)

[@samueleramellini8516]

Hi! Very interesting video. Can You tell me, if You know, how to export the image (in jpg) of the spectrum on my computer? Thank You in advance!

[@mdthib]

The only way I have done it is with a screen capture.

[@samueleramellini8516]

Thank you so much. I'll try as soon as possible. If I manage to know how to download it I'll write here surely.

[@AaronStygian]

This was very helpful. Thank you!

[@Simurated]

This is 10 years old! And, i hope your cats didn't pass out. It will be really sad!

[@mdthib]

They're still alive, and have now lived in three countries with me! KNOCK ON WOOD!

[@Simurated]

@@mdthib COOL!

[@nazibutterfly]

thank you SO much.

[@mahmoudzinji5672]

so if i want to remove the fridge sound . can i do that ?

[@mdthib]

There are noise reduction algorithms, and Audacity has one. It's easy to reduce hum sounds, but hard to fully erase them without damaging other audio and leaving artifacts.

[@qee540]

how do I export spectrometer animation from Audacity? is it possible?

[@matthewthibeault9819]

I don't think you can export the animation. I used screen capture software.

[@awsmdrummer62]

thanks i finally figured it out!!!

[@mdthib]

thanks!

[@gregzeng]

Searching now: how to remove the background hum (fridge).

[@GodmyX]

Thank you!

[@michaelharrington5218]

A new perspective for me. I've a project to the compare voices of Steven Colbert and Trevor Noah.

[@mirwislanger4792]

my Audacity ,has no click thing ,same as you did at 1:50 minutes of your video,mine is not clickable

[@mdthib]

Yeah, I made this 9 years ago, they probably changed it. I haven't used it in awhile, sorry!

[@eddygam3rgd688]

I tried the Lavender Town Song and i found A GHOST

[@MrMacio484]

+Eddy MLG no you did not

[@eddygam3rgd688]

I did.Dat ghosts

[@SuperRandomForum]

+Eddy MLG Make a video! Can't? you didn't find anything! Trolling? No? Make a video!! :D

[@eddygam3rgd688]

Ok

[@blockybfb8751]

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[@serginx]

Are you there?

[@bartwo4230]

ADAL

[@karlos.m5050]

may or may not have come for doom

[@kingkumorto791]

same lmao

[@bassie52]

compress

[@nothing5819]

I heard cats!

[@arctictimberwolf]

Ummmm...even if a person has healthy ear drums they still must have those sensors wired to their brains and they must also be able to use their brains to process the sounds. Most people are spiritually Brain Dead Zombies therefore hearing they hear not and seeing they see not. How often have ya been with somebody & heard something then turn to the person with ya & asked them if they heard the sound you just heard only to have that person say they did not hear it then proceed to call you Crazy for hearing stuff? Well, guess what, the Microphone is like a Camera in that it can be used to Prove a Sound Happened & you are not Crazy for hearing Stuff. It is not wrong to be Aware & Observant of All Aspects of your Surrounding Environments. In fact it is wise to be Aware of thy Surroundings & Foolish to be Oblivious.

[@madichelp0]

Weird ASMR but okay

[@NotTosterOven]

I heard animal abuse!!! =(

[@bonziworldfanthatguy1452]

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