[Ardour-Users] What does the red stuff in this screenshot mean?

[John Rigg]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:12:59PM +0300, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:31 +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
> > 2008/6/2 Sampo Savolainen <v2 at iki.fi>:
> > >
> > > Sounds like it. Could you still post a screenshot of the traditional view
> > > though?
> > >
> > 
> > http://blomma.ladjo.ath.cx:3030/open/screen_rectified.png
> > http://blomma.ladjo.ath.cx:3030/open/screen_traditional.png
> 
> Yeah, you have a relatively major DC offset in your signal. That's why
> the rectified waveform view fails.

Either that or it's just an asymmetrical waveform, eg. anything
with a lot of even harmonics in it. It's hard to tell without
zooming in far enough to see the actual waveform.

John