What happens when you clip the middle if a sound wave similar to pic related...

What happens when you clip the middle if a sound wave similar to pic related? What does it sound like and could it be achieved through the use of a guitar pedal?

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Uuuuh you have to be more specific, that image doesn't make sense

Please elaborate. I don't get what you're trying to say

is this a new force meme

>new force meme

Do you mean like a tremelo? In that picture you're just cutting out certain amplitudes of a single frequency

i love the arctic monkeys op

The more I think about this the more I think it'd effectively be the same as cutting the midrange and leaving the high and low frequencies. The image doesn't effectively illustrate this because it's nonsense but the original post this was included with was about clipping and dynamic range and asked what would happen if you only kept the 'clipping' parts which are removed when music is compressed too much and made that the entire song, removing the rest. If the OP meant what I think they meant, then all you have to do is use a notch filter or an equalizer scoop and then boost the volume way up.

>this fucking thread

The entire sound wave is one frequency depending on the speed of it, the wave's distance from the center is amplitude.
What OP is proposing wont have anything to do with EQ or frequency, removing the middle portion of a soundwave like that would either create a tremolo effect, or just some distortion.

yea but this is a repost from another topic where the image was this but the text of the post was about EQ and frequency

honestly i feel like this could be achieved through some clever envelope tool usage in an audio editing program, but i'm not sure how

if you removed those samples the wave would look like this. it would sound similar to a triangle wave but with a less orderly harmonic series

something similar could be done with an effects pedal but you'd need a specific algorithm to achieve exactly what OP is suggesting

You have to clarify what you mean. If you mean removing everything that's inside the red area, well, that would be pretty weird because if this is sound, the wave shape represents the air pressure, and it doesn't make sense for air pressure to be undefined.
Now on the other hand, if you mean clipping the wave's amplitude to the outer border of the red area and assuming that the wave continues as one would expect inside the red area... then you would probably get distortion. The clipping would introduce areas where the wave does sharp turns and then becomes horizontal. Such a wave has a much more complex frequency spectrum than a simple sinusoid wave does. Sounds with these kinds of frequency spectra tend to sound like distortion on a guitar amp.

Cont. Or, I guess, you might mean like . I think this would sound like a distorted tone at a particular frequency because again, the straight line parts introduce complex frequency spectra.
If you really want to hear what it sounds like, it would be pretty easy to do with software.

well user I managed to stack a couple signals and get very close. it's basically a sine wav with some odd harmonics (sine with some "squaring"). it took two square waves of varying phase to accomplish the right morphology though, along with a strong sine wave fundamental. it sounds gross, but if you had a processor that created that kind of harmonic distortion it would be interesting. this is what it sounds like. there's a good degree of digital foldover as well (all the weaker sets of subharmonics) but that was just an artifact of recording the signal through soundflower to audacity.

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well done lads

I think this may be the only interesting thread I've seen here
Thank you all

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>the wave shape represents the air pressure
it could just be silence

You could do this in serum

show me

Silence would be a straight line

arguably, a freq beyond human hearing could still be considered "silence" but not be a straight line. just playing devil's advocate here

Wavetable editor

It isnt. True silence would be no frequency

All frequencies are also silence because deaf people exist

the old "is it sound if it isn't percieved?" argument. not worthwhile. there's a range of air particle velocities and vibrations that fall between "silence" and "shockwave" and as far as I'm concerned all of that is "sound"

t. M.Sc. in Acoustics and M.Aud. in Audiology

show me

M. Aud fag here
Where you at bro?

i-idunno

funny how the spectrum analysis resembles the one from dark energy

ok that's actually sorta fucked up

It doesnt matter true silence is no frequency. This is fact

>true silence is no frequency
of course. i wasn't saying it was. i'm not that other user.

Ah misread sorry

>"just playing devil's advocate here"

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>I was only pretending to be a retard