The shape of the semiintegral can be used as an easy method to measure the amount of ohmic drop of an electrochemical cell in cyclic voltammetry. Essentially the semiintegral of a cyclic voltammogram at a planar electrode (an electrode that obeys to the rules of planar diffusion) has the shape of a sigmoid while the original data is gauss-sigmoid convoluted. This enables the operator to optimize parameters necessary for positive feedback compensation in an easy manner. If ohmic drop distortion is present the two sigmoids for the forward and the backward scan are far away from congruence, the ohmic drop can be calculated from the deviation from congruence in these cases. In the example shown slight distortion is present, yet this does not have adverse effects on data quality.