The Measurement of Noise with the Sound Spectrograph

The sound spectrograph principle may be employed in the quantitative measurement of noise. Measurements may be made with the conventional amplitude section circuit in which, in the customary use of the sound spectrograph, each section provides observation during a few milliseconds of the signal time. A long integrating time circuit for the amplitude sectioner has been developed which provides integration over a period of as much as one or two seconds of signal time. The amplitude sectioning circuit of the sound spectrograph may be employed to determine the relationship between the level of a pure tone and the power‐per‐cycle of noise. Measurements were made for various types of amplitude analysis with the sound spectrograph. A study was made of the degree to which the section displays conform to the computed values of noise level.