Disquiet » The Waveform: The Shape of Sound
ΒΆ The Equalizer: The waveform’s strongest pop-cultural precedent goes back at least to the days of the high-fidelity home stereo system, specifically to the standalone graphic equalizer, which let you control aspects of your sound at a much more nuanced level than just dual treble and bass knobs, and which in some systems showed you what the music “looked like” in terms of where sound levels peaked at various points along the spectrum.
Part of a very thoughtful post about the waveforms — and don’t miss the comments, where good points are made about the spectrogram.
