{"id":422,"date":"2012-02-19T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/uncategorized\/how-to-do-pitch-analysis-in-audacity\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T06:49:00","slug":"how-to-do-pitch-analysis-in-audacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/2012\/02\/how-to-do-pitch-analysis-in-audacity\/","title":{"rendered":"How to do Pitch Analysis in Audacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should like to make a singing game where people have to sing the tune that&#8217;s been played to them. A bit like a music memory game. So i thought i&#8217;d start by trying to find out how we do a simple pitch analysis.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arielst0rm7\/6900905797\/\" title=\"Picture 10 by punctuum, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7176\/6900905797_c48a87cb90_o.png\" width=\"709\" height=\"510\" alt=\"Picture 10\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I used an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seventhstring.com\/tuningfork\/tuningfork.html\">online tuning fork<\/a> to generate a tone and then listened to it while recording myself singing back the same note. [At this point I realised my voice was very &#8220;pitchy&#8221; as playing my voice together with the tone resulting in a discordant sound where the two pitches varied ever so slightly, so when conducting this experiment some degree of inaccuracy should be expected&#8230;.]<\/p>\n<p>In Audacity, go to <b>Analyze > Plot Spectrum&#8230; <\/b><br \/>Increase the <b>size<\/b> to <b>16384<\/b> (maximum)<br \/>Set <b>Axis<\/b> to <b>Log<\/b> (Logarithmic) to see the notes and frequencies present (The &#8220;highest&#8221; point means that frequency is loudest in that recording).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arielst0rm7\/6900905385\/\" title=\"Picture 8 by punctuum, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7203\/6900905385_28151aa454_o.png\" width=\"692\" height=\"574\" alt=\"Picture 8\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frequency Spectrum of myself singing 329.63Hz (E)<br \/>Result: Peak Spectrum of 330Hz (E)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arielst0rm7\/6900905385\/\" title=\"Picture 8 by punctuum, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7203\/6900905385_28151aa454_o.png\" width=\"692\" height=\"574\" alt=\"Picture 8\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frequency Spectrum of myself singing 220Hz (A)<br \/>Result: Peak Spectrum of 219Hz<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-Zd72KEwnYTU\/T0CbKf8GA9I\/AAAAAAAAAzw\/lZQyUdw4Bsw\/s800\/tumblr_lltzgnHi5F1qzib3wo1_400.jpg\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should like to make a singing game where people have to sing the tune that&#8217;s been played to them. A bit like a music memory game. So i thought i&#8217;d start by trying to find out how we do a simple pitch analysis. I used an online tuning fork to generate a tone and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}