Audio Signal Processing Basics Glossary There is a signal processing glossary on a page of its own. For a more exhaustive list of English-Finnish translations, see the Audiosignaalinkäsittelyn sanasto by Vesa Välimäki. Primitive Signals Sine wave The sine wave is more or less the building block of all signals, musical or not. fs = 44100; t = 0:1/fs:0.001; s = sin(2 * pi * 1700 * t); subplot(211), stem(abs(fft(s))), title('abs(fft(s))') subplot(212), stem(s), title('s') Noise white noise has an equal amount of energy on every frequency in music, there is often band-limited noise present fs = 44100; n = randn(fs, 1); n = n / max(abs(n)); subplot(211) plot(n), axis tight subplot(212) specgram(n) Speech The speech sample shown is the finnish word "seitsemän" You can listen to the speech sample. [s, fs] = wavread('seiska.wav'); plot(s),axis tight,grid on The following is the spectrogram of the above speech sound. specgram(s, 512, fs); colorbar Piano The piano sample shown is the middle C, whose fundamental frequency is 261 Hz.
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Eight Types of Hecklers and the Comedians Who Shut Them Up In the 2007 documentary Heckler, Joe Rogan says that “the number one thing about hecklers is 100% of them are douchebags.” A stand-up comedian’s act depends on the audience reaction by nature, but when someone attempts to derail the performer’s work, well, that’s something a douchebag would do. Still, heckling creates exciting moments of discomfort for the audience, and hecklers have instigated some great moments in comedy (Bryson Turner’s comeback) as well as some terrible moments (Michael Richards incident). Whether the outcome is funny, awkward, or awful, the eternal battle between heckler and stand-up is always fun to watch. Here are eight kinds of hecklers, and fifteen different ways of dealing with them. 1. Joe Rogan embraces hecklers like few other comedians, and his confrontation with this strange young woman is another drop in the bucket. 2. Rule #1: Always say yes. 3. They’re called servers, not waitresses. 4. 5. 6. Kenny Moore has a temper. 7. 8.
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The Power of Photoshop's Refine Edge Tool One of the most difficult and frustrating tasks in Photoshop is making a clean and decent selection on photos that involve super fine hair, fur, leaves, and any fiber like elements. When using the standard selection tool or the masking process, you may able to accurately select smooth edges. We may use the color range tool and the tweaking of levels and channels to select much difficult areas but that would also take too much time on manipulation and very complicated to follow. The good news is that, PS5 or Photoshop CS5 has a tool called the QUICK SELECTION tool. For example, we have here a wonderful haircut. Normally we would start at the marquee tool. Now when you have selected the necessary parts, find the Refine Edges option found at the right top area. On the strip image below, you can that I am using the black and white as the view mode, because we can clearly see the effectiveness of the tool. After that, we can now remove or apply a masking layer to remove the background.