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- From: thoad@nb.rockwell.com (Thomas DiGiacomo)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: How to build a noise reducer?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.170717.6575@nb.rockwell.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:07:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: nb.1992Nov18.170717.6575
- References: <zhenya.722059559@ultima>
- Sender: thoad@nb.rockwell.com (Thomas DiGiacomo)
- Organization: Rockwell International
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- In article <zhenya.722059559@ultima>, zhenya@socs.uts.edu.au ( The Firefox.) writes:
- > Does anyone have any ideas about the best way to build a device that takes
- > an input from an external microphone, shifts the signal 180 degrees out
- > of phase, and then re-emits it with little loss of resolution of the
- > waveform in the process?
- >
- > It would be great if it could also work from frequencies of about 20Hz up...
- >
- > Maybe there is a mail-order kit for something similar that someone know...
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- I assume what you want to do (from your Subject: line) is sound cancellation.
- If that is the case, consider that any processing you do on the signal will
- delay its output, so you cannot cancel the sound. But, the Bose company
- (speakers, etc.) has come up with headphones that cancel much noise, for
- helicopter pilots, for example, because the cancellation only has to be done
- in the cup of the headphone, and not over a whole room. (Not only would process-
- ing delay the signal, but you'd have to compensate for where the noise was
- coming from -- i.e. worry about room echoes, etc.).
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- I don't remember where I saw the info about the Bose headphones (Popular Science?)
- but do remember that it took much doing to achieve sound cancellation even in
- the small, mostly-controllable environment inside the headphone ear cups.
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- Tom DiGiacomo
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