Dave Moulton
Edward David ("Dave") Moulton (born circa 1936, Surrey, England. Father: Edward Moulton) is a retired custom bicycle frame builder.
Dave Moulton studied at Luton Technical College in England and learned bicycle frame building from Albert "Pop" Hodges in Luton, beginning in 1957. He opened a frame-building business around 1975 in Worcester, England. In 1976, Paul Carbutt rode one of Moulton's bicycles in the Olympics in Montreal, Canada. The bike frames were marked with Moulton's name, "Dave Moulton" in large lower-case letters.
Moulton began receiving orders from the United States due to the increasing popularity of cycling as a sport and the scarcity of master frame-builders there. Moulton emigrated to the United States in 1979 and went to work for Vic and Mike Fraysse in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. He built bicycles for them under the Paris Sport brand that were used by the US Olympic Cycling Team. In 1980 he went to work for Masi Bicycles in California until 1981. Shortly thereafter he rented space from Masi to start his own frame-building business. By 1983 he was doing well enough to move his business to a stand-alone location in San Marcos, California. That year he went into partnership with Olympic cyclist John Howard and manufactured bicycle frames under the John Howard name until 1984. In 1984 he began making frames under the Fuso label (Fuso is the Italian word for Molten), and, between 1985 and 1987, a small number under the Recherché label. The bicycles sold from US$1,500 to $3,000 in the late 1980s.
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Dave Moulton
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- Polarity Check: 0 dBFS swept sine waves
- Swept sine waves at -30, -60 and -90 dBFS
- Pink noise at 0, -30, -60 and -90 dBFS
- Linear progression of tones in 2 kHz steps
- Octave progression of tones
- Octave bands of pink noise
- Relative levels with pink noise and sine wave
- Phase shift of a sine wave, in stereo and mono
- Complex wave demonstration
- First 16 harmonics of a sawtooth wave
- Simple harmonic ratios
- Equal-tempered equivalents of simple harmonic ratios
- Filter sweep of a square wave
- Filter sweep of a sawtooth wave
- Aperiodic sounds
- Square wave in infrasonic range
- Power across spectrum
- Frequency, amplitude and spectral modulation
- 3-path and 7-path early reflection simulations
- Pitch vs. loudness demonstration
- Beating demonstration
- Critical band demonstration
- Square wave crossing 20 Hz/50 ms boundary
- Pitch perception demonstration
- Effect of Equal Loudness Contours
- The sound of A, B and C weighting curves
- 20 Hz/50 ms boundary
- Tempered versus just intonation in a major triad
- Phantom image location vs. amplitude differences
- Phantom image location vs. time differences
- Stereo moving source demonstration
- Additive synthesis demonstration
- Psychological effect of loudness
- Comb filtering demonstration
- Masking demonstration
- Demonstration of three types of pink noise
- Mono compatibility demonstration
- Compression demonstration
