Audacity Waveform of the Crack and Thump
What This Image Shows
A clean screenshot of the audio editor with no post text around it, showing a dual-channel stereo waveform in blue on a light purple background. The track is titled Adam Bartholomew crackthump Audio offset, and the timeline runs from 0.00 to 0.35 seconds with the level meters visible at the top.
This is the raw exhibit behind the annotated versions elsewhere in this cluster: the same file, presented without a caption telling you what to see. It is worth looking at in that order. The transient spikes are plainly visible, and the disagreement between analysts is entirely about what produced them and how they should be labelled, not about whether they are there.
The recording is one of the citizen-captured audio sources whose position on the plaza is fixed on the distance maps in this cluster. The competing interpretations are at Acoustic Two-Event Split and Witness Audio Conflicts, and the broadcast audio chain is examined at Canon XA55 Audio.
Related Areas
- Cluster: Ballistics and the Gun
- Section: Gun & Bullet Analysis
- All photo evidence: Photos