home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   comp.arch      Apparently more than just beeps & boops      131,241 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 129,671 of 131,241   
   David Brown to George Neuner   
   Re: Random/OT: Low sample rate audio wei   
   14 Sep 25 15:08:28   
   
   From: david.brown@hesbynett.no   
      
   On 14/09/2025 13:43, George Neuner wrote:   
   > On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:32:48 +0200, David Brown   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 12/09/2025 19:23, David Schultz wrote:   
   >>> On 9/12/25 12:01 PM, George Neuner wrote:   
   >>>> You are forgetting the lower harmonics. If it is true about 3 lower,   
   >>>> then ~1/3 of notes on the piano will include an overtone that is below   
   >>>> the (average) hearing threshold.   
   >>   
   >> Harmonics are always integer multiples of the base frequency, not   
   >> fractions - that's the definition of a harmonic.   
   >   
   > I learned them as "overtones" ... but it seems that musicians call   
   > them all "harmonics" regardless of whether they are higher or lower.   
   >   
   > MMV.   
      
   I'm not a musician - my knowledge of harmonics is from maths, physics,   
   signal processing, motor control, and that kind of thing.  Maybe   
   musicians use the term slightly differently.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca