Frequency Spectrum - Sound

Sound

Similarly, a source of sound can have many different frequencies mixed. A musical tone's timbre is characterized by its harmonic spectrum. Sound in our environment that we refer to as noise includes many different frequencies. When a sound signal contains es, distributed equally over the audio spectrum, it is called white noise.

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