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- From: kuusama@kaarne.cs.tut.fi (Kuusama Juha,,,,)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: microphone circuit
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 13:04:55 GMT
- Organization: Technical University of Tampere, Dep. of Computer Science ,Finland
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- In a previous article, scottb@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Scott Baker) says:
- >
- >I'm want to use a frequency counter as a guitar tuner.
- >
- You may think you do, but actually you don't. With a counter you'll
- get +- 1 count resolution, which on the low strings is only about 1%
- accuracy which (for any musical purposes) is horribly out of tune.
-
- You are aiming for accuracy of one or two cents, around 0.1% or
- better.
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- Juha
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