I find myself wondering how much of these harmonics play into the "tonewood debate" regarding the instruments themselves. Do different woods just reproduce certain harmonics better? Are some people too old, or ears too damaged to tell? Are some amplifiers themselves changing this via their tonestacks, power sections, EQs, etc? The preamp/active EQ in a bass? The speakers reproducing the sound? Some bassists prefer cabinets w/ out a horn, some like having the horn to get that "high end sparkle/sheen/snap/crispness/insertwordforhighs". Even strings are said to be bright, or warm, or punchy, or thumpy, or thicc, or yeah, you get my point. I've even had a tendency to describe new strings, and even some brands of strings themselves, as "harmonically rich" as well. Basically we are using various EQ tricks on every part of our instrument and its amplifier/output section to get a sound we like. I think this video, and ones like it, have made more questions than answers, and I mean that in a good way because at the end of the day, humans are thinking creatures and that leads to discovery. Thanks for sharing!
@gcvrsa
2 жыл бұрын
There's no "debate" about tonewood amongst people who understand physics. Yes, different woods have characteristic resonances, as sound different because they reproduce/transmit/resonate certain harmonics differently.
@Emily_M81
2 жыл бұрын
@@gcvrsa I feel like you didn’t really read my entire comment, or you didn’t understand what I was trying to say. Of course wood does all that; physics doesn’t just stop being a thing. The debate revolves around how much it actually matters in an electric guitar (as opposed to acoustic), and the questions I posed revolve around that premise and human perception itself. But imo this isn’t really the place for this sort of thing, so I’m bowing out, now. I hope I cleared up what I was trying to say at least.
@BarefacedAudio
2 жыл бұрын
I'd like to make some videos about this but to actually demo it correctly will be rather time consuming! But for starters I can address the theory behind it.
@Scoots1994
2 жыл бұрын
The flatwounds on my J-bass sound so wildly different than the roundwounds on my G&L L2000 ... the pickups are different too of course, but the flat wounds don't really ring out the harmonics to me. I hadn't really thought about it before but the strings change the way I play.
@BarefacedAudio
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely - for example that Jamerson trick of bouncing off the open E even though E isn't in the key of the song does not work with brighter basses.
@nalatreats
2 жыл бұрын
Captivating!
@robertdonosobuchner3129
Жыл бұрын
Since I've got my baritone guitar I really love the low tunings and the heavy sounds... and this brings me sometimes into the territory of the bass player... I have to find the frequencies for my baritone in a band context and this isn't easy. I started to use an equilizer but it's not perfect. I still have to find the right frequencies that I have to cut and to boost... Maybe it is also a problem with my cabinet I use. It's a Fatcab from Bluguitar. If I play with a moderate volume, the low frequencies are fine but a bit too dominant. If I reduce the low frequencies with the equilizer and bring up the midds and highs, it's sounds not perfect to me. Maybe I have to start playing bass to solve the problem. 🤔
@ernielamprell4532
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your interesting posts. Are you aware of any way to objectively define any particular sound e.g by detailed spectrum analysis? If there was, it would enable the dialling in of any required sound. I imagine that Kemper have cracked this? Regards
@PooNinja
2 жыл бұрын
We’re all just vibrations resonating on from the Big Bang. What’s your frequency. I’m about 210.42Hz but I’m a bit of a lunatic.
@PooNinja
2 жыл бұрын
I remember working out a crossover with an engineer… after many many conversations I stated I wanted the distortion that this particular driver produced… suddenly he said so it’s the Flavor of that driver your looking for not a perfectly flat response. Ahhh yes it’s perfectly imperfect I said.
@pharmerdavid1432
2 жыл бұрын
The "BIG BANG" theory (theory!) is just that, a THEORY. I find it absurd to believe our world evolved out of a BIG BANG, which I believe to be a BIG LIE, as is; evolution, spinning ball earth theory and theory of gravity used to make the lie believable, and many other "scientific" lies I won't discuss in my "short" comment here. Don't get me wrong, there are many scientific truths too, thank God. For instance, the "Schumann resonance" is our mother Earth's resonance at 7.83hz. (resolves to 9), and the human body resonates at approximately the same frequency - humans are literally connected to the Earth. "Earthing" or "grounding" is connecting your body to ground/earth, which floods your body with negative ions, neutralizing cortisol (destructive stress hormone) and reducing inflammation systemically, which is the case of most disease, but I digress (how's that for a long sentence?). Suffice to say, taking off your shoes and walking on the grass feels good because it IS good for you, and you can FEEL it - at least I can. Laying on the grass for an hour will make you feel rejuvenated, because it IS rejuvenating you. ANYways, I'm getting slightly (completely?) off topic. Thank you for another explanation of our musical world professor Bareface (still wondering where the name came from, hmmm?, where we strive to achieve sonic euphoria, or at least musical healing of our damaged bodies-minds-souls-spirits (like "soul" but with connection to God?). As for me and my plan for better tone - a "tone quest" I've been on forever it seems, a Barefaced 12" cabinet is likely in my future, or a 10" baffle in the 12" cabinet? And speaking of "tone quest", the "Tonequest Report" is published by David Wilson, who many of you likely already know about. Let's all send email to Mr. Dave asking for an interview and full report on Barefaced Audio!!!
@PooNinja
2 жыл бұрын
@@pharmerdavid1432 the echo of the singularity splitting can still be heard if you know where to listen, I love people having the God debate. I believe God did the math and we are just showing his work.
@amoontube
2 жыл бұрын
3.1415926Hz Cheese and onion
@dans2491
2 жыл бұрын
I'm more of a 420hz guy
@amoontube
2 жыл бұрын
Do you mean that we perceive deeper "notes" played on devices that are incapable of physically reproducing the lower frequency components of that "note" by recognizing the pattern of the other harmonic content and filling in the lower Hz gaps with our brain? Psychoacoustics would be a great topic to explore, especially wrt the BS that besets much of the music and sound reproduction industries. On hearing - we used to sample SPLs of student earbuds/headphones and regularly got well over 100dB(A) a max of 115.. to which their was often a claimed exposure of over 6 hrs per day. Perhaps the "headphone generation" of gig goers out there has hearing that is sig. compromised. Often wondered that if more people, especially young musicians and engineers , knew how the ear worked then perhaps they would take a bit more care of such an amazingly sophisticated mechanism. After all you don't see many guitarists putting their fingers in a vice. Once those hair cells in the cochlea are damaged that's it, they don't regenerate.. (not in adult mammals anyway). This is a good vid on hearing and the ear: kzitem.info/news/bejne/sZuK2J19jXd_opg
@BarefacedAudio
2 жыл бұрын
It scares me that too many people consider "morning after tinnitus" the sign of a good gig or club night! I'll make a video about the "filling in the lower harmonics" because it's a very interesting issue.
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