The jet sound quality “crackle” has historically been studied and quantified using the statistics of the pressure waveform. Some investigators have suggested crackle, and its associated shock content, may be better quantified using the statistics of the time derivative of the waveform. Modified waveforms are used to evaluate crackle prediction criteria based on the skewness of each variable. The resultant waveforms are provided as direct evidence that the pressure distribution does not directly predict or quantify a crackling sound quality while the statistics of the derivative appear to do so.