Engineering Sound

This blog is designed to document my studies as part of my independent study at Marin Academy. My aim is to post clear explanations of the material that I learn in the form of blog posts, as well as experiment discussions. The curriculum focuses on the science, math, and computer science that drive sound, music, and digital music processing.

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Moog Sub Phatty Waveform Purity Analysis

Recently, I have brought my Moog Sub Phatty into school to study it from the perspective of my independent study. My primary method of ana...

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Analysis of a Distortion Circuit

Building on my post about distortion , I built a distortion circuit with the help of Jon Bretan. The circuit takes in audio signal and uses ...

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Death Valley & Singing Sand

I spent the past week in Death Valley for my Marin Academy Minicourse, and I discovered something that connects the environment of the deser...

Phasing & Phase Cancellation

As governed by the laws of physics, sound waves have specific interactions when they come in contact with each other. A good model of this i...

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Echo & Reverb

Echo and reverberation, commonly referred to as reverb, are two naturally occurring sound effects that are also commonly utilized digitally ...

Monday, February 1, 2016

Sound Distortion

Distortion in the context of music is a word that is often tossed around by people who do not have a sufficiently clear or deep understandin...

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Doppler Analysis & Analysis of Leslie Cabinet

My previous post about the Doppler effect provides a good explanation as to what the Doppler effect is and the properties of sound that ca...

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