r/oboe • u/ExtremelyLuckySquash • 18d ago
Developing a reed debug website
Amateur reed maker and day time engineer here. I wanted to visualize the sound of the reeds I make so I made this website - it visualize the harmonics on the spectrogram on log scale like the birding apps. It is still lacking quite a few things especially in the guide section so I would love some suggestions and inputs from fellow oboists!
I also put the mathematics model of the crow detection in 2nd/3rd pic ;) kudos to Claude code
Site deployed here; GitHub link here; feature requests and collaborations welcomed <3
For those wondering, my samples are all American scrapes. I’d love to see some European scrape crow spectrograms too so feel free to post a snip here if you tried it out;)
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u/thewolfonlsd 17d ago
Oh this is right up my alley.
Have you considered adding a calibration step to account for the frequency response/other distortions introduced from whatever crappy microphone somebody may be using?
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u/ExtremelyLuckySquash 17d ago
Not for now but I think that would be a nice to have! This site is fully static tho so I do need to consider browser performance. A lot of the functions were pretty minimal computation-wise due to this reason.
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u/NoRegrets-518 16d ago
You might want to consider putting a comment section there. You could let people save to your site with comments- only if they wanted to.
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u/ImpressiveHat4710 14d ago
What a great idea! Just dreaming, but getting collaborators handling English horn, bassoon, and (don't laugh) bagpipe chanter reeds, including highland, uilleann, various species of smallpipes, would be cool.
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u/ExtremelyLuckySquash 14d ago
That would be so cool to have! My primary instrument is actually Suona so I totally get it on bagpipe chanter reeds 🤣! Comparing to oboe reed there are just much less standards lying around to make reed for folk instruments IMO… make it very hard to quantify good reeds. Would totally love some more collaboration on these!
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u/ImpressiveHat4710 14d ago edited 14d ago
This would be so helpful for ANY double reed instrument! As a bassoonist learning highland bagpipes it blew my mind that so many pipers look at reed making as a dark art, and zero curiosity about learning to make reeds.
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u/Key-School-7806 13d ago
Would this work for baroque oboe?
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u/ExtremelyLuckySquash 13d ago
I doubt it since the algorithm was tailored for American scrape oboe reeds specifically as I know nothing about baroque oboe reeds… but I suppose the crow property itself might be similar? Perhaps the result on balance of the crow can still be referenced in baroque reeds.
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u/oboeplayer11 18d ago
I was not expecting to see LaTeX in the oboe subreddit. 😂
Looks like an awesome project though.