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  2. Spill (audio) - Wikipedia

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    Spill occurs when sound is detected by a microphone not intended to pick it up (for example, the vocals being detected by the microphone for the guitar). [3] Spill is often undesirable in popular music recording, [4] as the combined signals during the mix process can cause phase cancellation and may cause difficulty in processing individual tracks. [2]

  3. Tinnitus - Wikipedia

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    If certain problems are found, medical imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), may be performed. Other tests are suitable when tinnitus occurs with the same rhythm as the heartbeat. [ 3 ] Rarely, the sound may be heard by someone other than the patient by using a stethoscope , in which case it is known as "objective tinnitus". [ 3 ]

  4. Tinnitus masker - Wikipedia

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    The noise level is close to and usually somewhat louder than the perceived loudness of the tinnitus. The generated noise is designed to be a calming, less intrusive sound than the ringing or hissing of tinnitus. Depending on the loudness of the noise, tinnitus may be fully or partially masked.

  5. The Hum - Wikipedia

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    The first was a 36 Hz tone from a cooling tower at the local DaimlerChrysler casting plant and the second was a 10 Hz tone from an air compressor intake at the Haynes International plant. [21] After those devices were corrected, however, reports of the hum persisted.

  6. Audio headset - Wikipedia

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    General 3.5 mm computer headsets come with two 3.5 mm connectors: one connecting to the microphone jack and one connecting to the headphone/speaker jack of the computer. 3.5 mm computer headsets connect to the computer via a sound card, which converts the digital signal of the computer to an analog signal for the headset. USB computer headsets ...

  7. Active noise control - Wikipedia

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    In 1957 Willard Meeker developed a working model of active noise control applied to a circumaural earmuff. This headset had an active attenuation bandwidth of approximately 50–500 Hz, with a maximum attenuation of approximately 20 dB. [3] By the late 1980s the first commercially available active noise reduction headsets became available.

  8. Covert listening device - Wikipedia

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    It consisted of a microphone in one location and a remote listening post with a speaker that could also be recorded using a phonograph. While also marketed as a device that allowed broadcasting of sounds, or dictating text from one room to a typist in another, it was used in several criminal investigations.

  9. Microphone - Wikipedia

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    Shure Brothers microphone, model 55S, multi-impedance "Small Unidyne" dynamic from 1951. A microphone, colloquially called a mic (/ m aɪ k /), [1] or mike, [a] is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.