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Scaling of fft, when analyzing an audio file

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Ivan Arkhipov
Ivan Arkhipov on 4 May 2021
Answered: Chunru on 5 May 2021
I am trying to understand what the appropriate scaling factor is for the fft. I have an audio file split into four different segments, and I am trying to look at the different frequency behavior of each segment. I have seen some conflicting information about scaling by dt (1 / sampling frequency), or by the length of the individual segments. Obviously, the general plot behavior is the same for each case (so maybe it doesn't matter), but I don't understand what the scaling here does.

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Chunru
Chunru on 5 May 2021
For random signal, abs(fft(x))^2 / N is the estimate (biased) of the power spectrum and its unit is power per normalized frequency (which means fs is corresponding to the normalized frequency of 1). abs(fft(x))^2/(N*fs) is the power spectrum with the unit of power/Hz.

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