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Music - the Great Equaliser

Sat, 03/14/2009 - 01:16 — Peter Jukes


Revamped Graphic Equalizer from Marcelo Costa on Vimeo.

Music equaliises us all

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...but is it?

Mon, 03/16/2009 - 11:19 — spbmssen

What we are looking at here are representations of a Spectrum Analyser, not a Graphic Equaliser. A graphic equalizer is a device for changing the frequency spectrum of a sound - the 'graphic' bit being provided by the vertical positions of a horizontal row of sliding knobs - each affecting a set frequency band. These do not move to the music. A spectrum analyser, on the other hand, is a display device that analyses a sound, and (usually) represents it as a horizontal row of vertical displays, each one representing the sound volume (or pressure) within a set frequency band.

But, hang on, does it matter? Lots of people - including the video creator (who one must assume has a fairly good knowledge of sound science) - use the term 'graphic equaliser' for this sort of display hardware....so doesn't a sorealist accept that as a valid name? Isn't it often called that in real life, and so that's what it is?

Can a sorealist validly use pedantry?

 

 

It's not pedantry in this case...

Mon, 03/16/2009 - 16:49 — sorealism

 ...but precision. Obviously the word 'spectrum analyser' is not common usage, and people use 'graphic' interchangably. You can kind of forgive them, after a spectrum in a kind of graphic. But I prefer to know the accurate version.

I suppose it's soreal to WANT to know more, and not be ashamed of getting it wrong, and begging the question. Had this long debate with my daughter over the weekend, and the common misuse of words such a emotive, pristine, enervated. There does come a point, as with words such as horrible, terrible, awful, when the originals have so lost their meaning that the old versions are archaic, and we have to go with the new if inaccurate ones for the sake of comprehension.

But I would fight for spectrum analyser. It's never had much of an airing, or a chance to disport itself in the sun. 

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