Can you hear it?

Andrew J · 2 Apr 2008

I can just hear the 17kHz with my 36 year old ears, I've got some serious attenuation going on though! The 20kHz tone just outputs a click, so don't strain yourself trying to hear that one.

As a kid I used to be able to hear up well above 20kHz. I could hear the flyback coils from TV sets from a fair distance - so I could tell people if they'd left their TV set on upstairs, that sort of thing. I couldn't stand someone handling polystyrene foam - that would put my teeth on edge from at least 50m away (think of fingernails on a blackboard).

Of course we didn't have mobile phones back then. Come to think of it, we didn't have the internet and not much in the way of computers...

-Andrew

electrogear · 3 Apr 2008

I'm 23. I have to crank my amp up to hear the 16 KHz, and I don't think I can hear the 17 KHz.... 😕

electrogear · 3 Apr 2008

Andrew J wrote: I can just hear the 17kHz with my 36 year old ears, I've got some serious attenuation going on though! The 20kHz tone just outputs a click, so don't strain yourself trying to hear that one.

As a kid I used to be able to hear up well above 20kHz. I could hear the flyback coils from TV sets from a fair distance - so I could tell people if they'd left their TV set on upstairs, that sort of thing. I couldn't stand someone handling polystyrene foam - that would put my teeth on edge from at least 50m away (think of fingernails on a blackboard).

Of course we didn't have mobile phones back then. Come to think of it, we didn't have the internet and not much in the way of computers...

-Andrew

Are you sure you're not a bat....?

Ah, I've got it, you're a vampire!!!

rl · 3 Apr 2008

Some time ago having seen a similar article, I thought it was an april fool's joke. Then I did a listening test with my son using Syntmaker, a sine osc and a knob to sweep the frequency. After spotting the difference I decided to stick to Drum'n Bass and Dubstep music, which is more in the 30 - 100 Hz interval.

aliasant · 3 Apr 2008

rl wrote: Some time ago having seen a similar article, I thought it was an april fool's joke. Then I did a listening test with my son using Syntmaker, a sine osc and a knob to sweep the frequency. After spotting the difference I decided to stick to Drum'n Bass and Dubstep music, which is more in the 30 - 100 Hz interval.

LOL

I should probably follow your example rl...

I had this stupid cancer thing a couple of years back and the treatment, they said, might affect my hearing. ao I did hearing tests and passed but I still feel like I dont hear as well as I should. My limit is some were around 14kHz. On a sunny day.

Acrobat · 3 Apr 2008

Andrew J wrote: The 20kHz tone just outputs a click, so don't strain yourself trying to hear that one.

Wow, incrdible, I think I ruined my ears with raves, but also before when I was doing heavy metal, dunno.

I have also problems with panning, beacuse one channel is always a little be louder than the other ...

Anyway it's different everyday, today I hear the 17Khz!

But the 20Khz .. no way, not even a click...

Nu Audio Science · 3 Apr 2008

I'm not even gonna bother checking hahahaha I was born deaf and remianed so for the first 12 years of my life I had various operations to fix me and i have had 22 years of hearing since My hearing gets progressivly worse as time goes by and i know that soon enough i will be deaf again

I spent ten years gigging on the rave scene with rigs that where bigger than a house hahahah and i loved it so i have no regrets But it has left me like Acrobat in the panning department one ear being much better than the other

NAS

aliasant · 3 Apr 2008

Nu Audio Science wrote: I'm not even gonna bother checking hahahaha I was born deaf and remianed so for the first 12 years of my life I had various operations to fix me and i have had 22 years of hearing since My hearing gets progressivly worse as time goes by and i know that soon enough i will be deaf again

I spent ten years gigging on the rave scene with rigs that where bigger than a house hahahah and i loved it so i have no regrets But it has left me like Acrobat in the panning department one ear being much better than the other

NAS

Ouch NAS. Tough story. 🙁

Nu Audio Science · 3 Apr 2008

I dont think so Aliasant

I have had probably a hundred records out I have played live all over the UK and in Europe I have DJed everywhere in the UK and a lot of places in Europe I have rapped all over the UK and supported some of the biggest names in HipHop I love music and have had the best times of my life while doing something musical

I don't know what so tough about that ?

If your on about being born deaf and being so for 12 years naaaaaah i was born like that and didn't know any better till it got fixed 😉

NAS

aliasant · 3 Apr 2008

Nu Audio Science wrote: I dont think so Aliasant

I have had probably a hundred records out I have played live all over the UK and in Europe I have DJed everywhere in the UK and a lot of places in Europe I have rapped all over the UK and supported some of the biggest names in HipHop I love music and have had the best times of my life while doing something musical

I don't know what so tough about that ?

If your on about being born deaf and being so for 12 years naaaaaah i was born like that and didn't know any better till it got fixed 😉

NAS

Your right. I guess I was more like thinking about the future. But again. your right. Youve done more music then most of us.

Cool thing that the actually could "fix" it. Who knows about what they can fix in the future?

Acrobat · 3 Apr 2008

aliasant wrote: Cool thing that the actually could "fix" it. Who knows about what they can fix in the future?

I'm sure in the near future they'll make blind people see, not joking, an equipe found a way to interecept what you are lookin at and reconstruct the image on a computer, that's amazing too...

Nu Audio Science · 3 Apr 2008

Hey most people go deaf as they get older anyway I just know for a cert i will No harm no foul 😉

NAS

ARKZERO · 28 Apr 2008

Nu Audio Science wrote: I dont think so Aliasant

I have had probably a hundred records out I have played live all over the UK and in Europe I have DJed everywhere in the UK and a lot of places in Europe I have rapped all over the UK and supported some of the biggest names in HipHop I love music and have had the best times of my life while doing something musical

wow NAS youve had a busy succesfull musical life! nice m8 🙂 ive been in the UK Dance scene for around the same amount of time and have worked with hundreds of bands artists and DJ`s

i would love to know who you were then (stage name) in your performance days?

I would understand if you dont want to say on this forum as you would get no peace from the starstruck masses 🙂

i recently got found out on another forum after i said too much about myself! man i still have nightmares about the state of my in box there lol

but nice to see successful/Pro musicans useing synthmaker

how many more of you have had or have careers in the music industry?

Me,im a producer and co owner of a small but world wide recognised dance music label based in the UK,Scotland to be precise 😀

regards ark

ARKZERO · 28 Apr 2008

double post sorry 😉

Acrobat · 25 May 2008

ARKZERO wrote: i recently got found out on another forum after i said too much about myself! man i still have nightmares about the state of my in box there lol

It's like being beutiful girls, I guess. Now I understand why you both didn't specify your city but just the country in the profile.... 😮

..and so you use the "Nickname" in its proper way, to hide identity, not just to have an additional attribution, that's so different.... 😮