i am not a sound engineer, but i don't think you ought to be one to detect
when a beat -as it is increased in bpm- becomes a continuous bleep of some
sort. i think anyone and everyone with a trained and acute musical ear (and
that would probably include most of us) would be able to perceive it.
as far as around what bpm our brains stop detecting a pulsing beat..
i have yet to try that, i guess i would leave that tentative answer to the
enginner(s) out there..
--luis
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From: Alex Reynolds <reynolda@sas.upenn.edu>
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: [idm] a question about perception of sound
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:00:41 -0400
quoted 6 lines Although I'm sure one could turn a tempo knob up to 1000 bpm pretty easily
>Although I'm sure one could turn a tempo knob up to 1000 bpm pretty easily
>(creating what would certainly sound like a high pitched beep), the concept
>itself is absurd (that is, it is nonsensical). A 'beat' is a term that
>directly relates to the human perception of rhythm - if you can't detect a
>rhythm of a given sound on some level, if you can't feel it pulsing, then I
>don't think it's helpful to refer to its increments as 'beats'.
just curious, but is there anyone out there who is a sound engineer?
i'm wondering what the cut-off point is for most people, i.e. around
what bpm measure do our brains stop detecting beats and hear a
continuous sound, instead? i would think it varies from person to
person, but i wonder where and by how much...
-a.
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