Example: Spectrum Analysis of an Oboe Tone

In this section we compare three FFT windows applied to an oboe recording. The examples demonstrate that more gracefully tapered windows support a larger spectral dynamic range, at the cost of reduced frequency resolution.

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Subsections

• Rectangular-Windowed Oboe Recording
• Hamming-Windowed Oboe Recording
• Blackman-Windowed Oboe Recording
• Conclusions

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About the Author: Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.