# Spectral "Compensation"?

**URL:** <https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/spectral-compensation/299>\
**Category:** Usage Questions\
**Created:** [August 4, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/spectral-compensation/299 "2019-08-04T12:53:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/spectral-compensation/299/61 "2020-05-15T10:45:02Z")

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> [@weefuzzy](#):
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> How do the samps and ms fail to line up?

I don’t know why this is the case, but having a `buffer~ 256_loudness -1 2 @samps 7` gives me a size of 7samps, but somehow it’s 10.15873ms…

![Screen Shot 2020-05-15 at 11.41.40 am](https://discourse.flucoma.org/uploads/default/original/1X/6d904737d337aaeada609162397fc2e9b9837e98.png)

What’s stranger is that it seems to actually write the full length of the buffer.

This is what I see when I view the contents of `buffer~ 256_spectral_shape_stats -1 7 @samps 14`

 ![Screen Shot 2020-05-15 at 11.43.33 am](https://discourse.flucoma.org/uploads/default/original/1X/8a8b719e4301c1d5000ce41dc2f6e19fd62ea126.png)

There are 14 “samples” of information there, but it seems to cover around 20ms of “time”.

I don’t know if this is partly why I’m seeing strange results in processing time when changing `@blocking` modes.

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