Test Tone CD

[rek50]

In another thread, Rob mentioned using your computer's sound card to make a 30 Hz test tone (for centering a VC). Sounds like a dandy idea to me! Trouble is, I can't find a "Test Tone for DUMMIES tutorial:blink: ". I have a clunky old Sound Blaster Live sound card. Is that enough "Juice" to make a test tone CD? How do you do it? :dont-know

[Robh3606]

Actually what I meant was you could use the output of your soundcard as a source for the tone. If you download WinIsd it has a tone generator built in. You could set it for 30Hz and bring the sound card output into a line level input on your preamp or reciever to drive the speaker. To make the CD you need a program to generate the wave file to be written on the CD


http://www.linearteam.org/download/winisd/winisdbeta.exe


Rob:)

[Don McRitchie]

http://www.nch.com.au/tonegen/#101

This program allows you to store tones of defined frequencies and duration as .wav files. These files can be burned to a CD. The program is shareware, meaning that you have to pay for it if you want to keep it. However, there is a 30 trial period at no cost.

[jblnut]

Thanks - this is WAY COOL ! I grabbed the PocketPC version which seems to work great. Now I have a nice little signal generator I can take with me.

I'll be a hit at parties for sure....

:)

jblnut



http://www.nch.com.au/tonegen/#101

This program allows you to store tones of defined frequencies and duration as .wav files. These files can be burned to a CD. The program is shareware, meaning that you have to pay for it if you want to keep it. However, there is a 30 trial period at no cost.

[rek50]

Thanks!! I'll give those links a look.

[Zilch]

"Izzat a test tone in yer pocket, or are you jus' glad to see me?"


Mae West

[Loosely.... :D ]

[alskinner]

Here's a link to free tone files. Goes from 10 HZ to 20K in graduated steps. Only 10 seconds duration but you can set up a loop for the MP3 files to play for longer times. Also has some neat frequency pan files.

http://www.ronelmm.com/tones/

Regards
AL

[mrbluster]

[QUOTE=Don McRitchie]http://www.nch.com.au/tonegen/#101

This program allows you to store tones of defined frequencies and duration as .wav files. These files can be burned to a CD. The program is shareware, meaning that you have to pay for it if you want to keep it. However, there is a 30 trial period at no cost.[/QUOTE

I had no trouble downloading the program to my Imac (OS 10.3) but can't seem to burn a CD after I save file as per program instructions. Could someone walk me through the proceedure? Thanks in Advance for any help. I want to create a 30Hz CD for voice coil alignment work.

Mrbluster

[pentictonklaus]

Here is another link to a very good audio test program, let's you do all hz, pink and white noise, plus mic input for writing :

http:\\www.audiotester.de (http://www.audiotester.de)

do not panic, the program is in english, shareware

[johnaec]

Here's a link to a free downloadable test CD the guys over at ProSoundWeb like - you can even download the the tones individually from the \tracks folder: http://www.4horsemen.net/binkster/

Here's what the tracks contain:

1 Left-Right
2 Left, Right, Center, Surround (like Dolby Pro-Logic)
3 Dual Tone 700 L, 1k R 0dB 30s
4 700 0dB 30s
5 1k 0dB 60s
6 Log Sweep 20 to 20k, 0dB to -6dB, 32s
7 Linear Sweep 20 to 20k, 0dB to -6dB, 32s
8 80Hz warble +-40Hz -1dB 60s
9 100Hz warble +-40Hz -1dB 60s
10 120Hz warble +-40Hz -1dB 60s
11 16 -1dB 30s
12 20 -1dB 30s
13 25 -1dB 30s
14 31.5 -1dB 30s
15 40 -1dB 30s
16 50 -1dB 30s
17 60 -1dB 30s
18 63 -1dB 30s
19 70 -1dB 30s
20 80 -1dB 30s
21 90 -1dB 30s
22 100 -1dB 30s
23 125 -1dB 30s
24 160 -1dB 30s
25 200 -1dB 30s
26 250 -1dB 30s
27 315 -1dB 30s
28 400 -1dB 30s
29 500 -1dB 30s
30 630 -1dB 30s
31 800 -1dB 30s
32 1250 -1dB 30s
33 1600 -1dB 30s
34 2k -1dB 30s
35 2500 -1dB 30s
36 3150 -1dB 30s
37 4k -1dB 30s
38 5k -1dB 30s
39 6300 -1dB 30s
40 8k -1dB 30s
41 10k -1dB 30s
42 12500 -1dB 30s
43 16k -1dB 30s
44 20k -1dB 30s
45 Piano A4 440Hz
46 Piano solo, stereo
47 Drum solo, stereo
48 Digital Metronome 120bpm 4mins
49 Crest Wave 10s
50 DC Offset 10% Inverted Polarity 20s
51 DC Offset Full!! Inverted Polarity 20s
52 1k Inverted Polarity 0dB 30s
53 1k -60dB 10s
54 1k Square -2dB 30s
55 1k Square 0dB!! 30s
56 White Noise -9dB 60s
57 440 -1dB 20mins
58 Pink Noise -12dB 20mins
59 Digital Silence 2mins

John

[mrbluster]

Thanks very much, I will try both of these.