Post by filmmakerstutz on Apr 29, 2013 14:35:14 GMT -6
I am starting pre production for my thesis film, which has some sci fi elements in it, and this week we are shooting a pitch, which will be incorporating an Oscilloscope. I just realized I am not sure what I need to do to actually make the lines on the screen display the oscillations of a frequency (and I am not very tech savy at all).
Details:
I bought this Oscilloscope on ebay: Kikusui 5630 Oscilloscope E21A ABC322
All it came with is the power cord, and everything lights up and it seems to work. Now I just need to see the oscillations or frequency waves.
What other cords or plugs ins do I have to buy? and what other device do I need to attach them to?
If all you need is a simple waveform to display for some background movie effect all that would be needed is to put the oscilloscope into calibration mode usually by a switch setting on the front panel. This usually shows a sine wave that can be toyed with using the controls and nothing more would be needed.
On the other hand if showing audio on the scope is your goal you can simply run a speaker wire to its V (vert or vertical) input from a stereo systems left or right speaker output which should be easy enough.
With a bit of ingenuity you can take a headphone jack plug and wire that to the scope, and plug it into a computers audio sound output jack and run some software to produce audio waveforms. Any simple synthesizer program would work, and even youtube has videos with audio of different waveforms.
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