On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:23:42AM +0300, Dmitry Baikov wrote: > On 1/12/07, Paul Winkler <pw_lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >range anyway. (The fundamental of a low E on a bass guitar is about > >40 Hz, but most of the energy of that note is in the first few > >overtones.) > > Fieldy/Korn plays on low string tuned to A - 27.5Hz :) Heh. ok, but the point still stands... you're mostly hearing overtones. There is not a whole lot of energy coming from that bass at 27.5 Hz. Most of it is above 50 Hz. And most bass rigs and PA subwoofers don't have much output down at 27.5 Hz. Pretty much everything I know of has a steep rolloff well above 30 Hz. There are very few instruments that really have much output in the lowest octave of human hearing (20 - 40 Hz). IIRC pipe organ is one, the lowest frequency from a 32-foot pipe is actually below 20 Hz. Synthesizers of course can do anything :-) But even in heavily synthetic dance music most of the bass energy is typically up around 80 Hz or so. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
