Bruce, what Basic are you running? I have several with some type of BASIC, including versions back to pre-GWBASIC, ie., PC/MSDOS (v.2, 3.0, 3.1, 3.3, 4.0, 4.1, 5 and 6). I'll go look if you want. I also think I have an old C Compiler and may still have a DOS FORTRAN module.

Also, are there any other universities up there with good caliber iron? You might be able to use some of their gear for the asking, from O'scopes to run time. Wish I still had my Cincinnati account. Lots of big iron there.

Edmonds Scientific ought to have what you're looking for if you don't have any luck elsewhere.

Thanks Amos - I did make some rather bold statements in the earlier post that our guest grad can take as preliminaries and I had a few pre-corollaries in the last one I think. Bruce is correct on the face of this however. I am trying to reach an empirical solution here first, using tools available to me and little or no reference material. An old fashioned experiment. I feel I sort of cheated using Fourier transformations.

I could run the capture through the wringer if I wanted. I have enough tools here to make Seamus sound like Mary Poppins if I wanted to.

I'll get back on the horse later on this morning. I had a long night with my students, one of whom is preparing a piece he hopes Tabasco will use in an advertisement. I asked him about the project here and he said it was a damn good question. He works for NORTEL in their computer lab and he said he might dive into this himself. He had some choice comments about it. One was that it was a curious thing to try to hear in any fashion because it has no bearing on the actual sound of the event (we laughed).