DFT in Practice - Frequency Resolution Issues

An example of how to analyse the fundamental frequency of two notes being played on a bass guitar.
Documentation on the DFT is available at dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.330...
Other notes available at at pzdsp.com/docs.
Matlab code available at dadorran.wordpress.com/2013/12...
A pdf version of the tutorial available at dadorran.wordpress.com/2013/12...
Download the bass guitar recording from eleceng.dit.ie/dorran/matlab/b...

[@MinhTran-wn1ri]

Great demo. I wish I'd seen this years ago in my college intro to signals class.

[@martinfultot5756]

I was struggling with the exact same issue. Very clarifying and great accent.

[@MinhTran-wn1ri]

Thank you. I'm taking a DSP course now and this demo is very helpful.

[@hieutrung2883]

hieu chua chi lai tui voi

[@samioannidis2455]

great work

[@husseinalgusab4129]

Very good totorial you are manifiqes David thank you very much and please continue because your method to illustrate the concepts is vrey clear and useful

[@jackhansenguitar]

Fascinating! what criteria does MATLAB use to distinguish fundamental from harmonic??

[@marksteven6824]

Sir will it recognize a note from vocal inputs?

[@mmuuuuhh]

Could I interpolate between Samples, to increase the number of values, and therefore increase the resolution of the DFT?
Would this work as an alternative to the zero-padding methode?

[@ddorran]

I'm afraid this wouldn't work since when you resample you are changing the sampling interval between samples. For example say you had 1000 samples obtained using a sampling rate of 500 Hz (sampling interval =.002) then the spacing between DFT bins would be fs/N = 500/1000 = 0.5 Hz. If you interpolated by a factor of 2 then you'd have 2000 samples with a sampling interval of 0.001 (or an effective sampling rate of 1000Hz). Taking the DFT of these interpolated samples would result in a separation between bins of fs_interp/N_interp = 1000/2000 = 0.5Hz.

[@olamideajala687]

hello, please how do I zero pad column data. I used this (y7F_zpad = [y7F zeros(1, 99000)]; ) but I keep getting error (Error using horzcat). the variable y7F is a column data with 1002 samples.

[@ddorran]

+olamide ajala y7F_zpad = [y7F ; zeros( 99000,1)]; should work

[@c33g]

I am simulating a mass spring damper system in simulink and i am trying to calculate the frequency response of the system. I can work out all parameters other than Fs.
Can you suggest anything?
thanks

[@upendrasingh9390]

Good explanation, Please provide us simulation of HSQC Pulse sequence in Matlab ASAP.

[@muntu2008]

I didn't understand why you took the frame size 1 sample less than the number of samples you specified. For eg. at 2:40 you took N=2000, but the 'frame' has 1 up to N-1 (1999) samples of the 'seg'. So, 'ft_mags' has 1999 bins. But then you used N=2000 instead of 1999 to calculate the frequency resolution using bin*fs/N (4:35). I think, since the size of the 'frame' is 1999, N should be =1999 instead of 2000 for calculating the frequency resolution.

[@ddorran]

You are correct Pragoti Pran Bora. I made a mistake in my code. Thanks for identifying that! Apologies for any confusion caused.

[@muntu2008]

Thanks David Dorran for the reply. And no Problem. This was a minor mistake and I could identify it only because I thoroughly followed your other videos on the topic. Your tutorials are indeed excellent and give a practical insight into digital signal processing. Looking forward to more such amazing tutorials from you in the future.