I have this dream that one day I will write a solo called 'low hanging fruit' on a 6 string bass with a low A string and split my signal into 3 sub woofers. The solo will consist of only the smashing of low open strings.
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The Quest to Find the Brown note
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Sounds unpleasant. The "brown note" is a myth.
Lemmy said they had a ring modulator they used in Hawkwind & it made some people freak out at certain frequencies.
I figure that's the device you'd best be able to accomplish a brown note on.
I figure that's the device you'd best be able to accomplish a brown note on.
Wasn't there a cartoon that was making kids have seizures? Be kinda cool to have your brown note song for its soundtrack.
Low notes combined with rapidly flashing lights and dizzying patterns displayed on a huge screen behind the band.
Just ensure you don't have to clean up after that one...
Just ensure you don't have to clean up after that one...
unbeliever back to your twinkle strings
according to music legend lemmy was the one who stuck a pencil through his speaker in order to achieve more distortion
Hah, wanna go low, beat my E0 tuned Knuckle Quake! Shakes the very ground! But still no brown note, sorry. Skip has gone way lower since, from what I read...
Or perhaps an epileptic seizure, as in certain Japanese TV shows, I suppose one side effect of which might be
. But that's not the true legendary "Brown Note".
yeah but,
a seizure could very well have the side effect of a BM
a seizure could very well have the side effect of a BM
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The way a ring modulator works is it provides the sum and difference of the two input frequencies. Feed it two signals tuned exactly 5 hZ apart and the output is a signal almost exactly an octave higher and a signal at 5 hZ. Bring diapers
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I guess I don't get out enough. I've never heard of the "brown note" phenomenon. So, of course, I Googled it.
From Brown note - Wikipedia
That sounds pretty serious. The article goes on to mention that the space program performed tests on astronauts sitting directly on vibration tables because air is a bad conductor of low frequencies. The effects on the astronauts were thought to be the impetus of the urban myth.
Mythbusters also disproved that ~9Hz at loud levels could cause problems below the belt.
Interesting concept. I guess I learned something today. Thanks guys!
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
I guess I don't get out enough. I've never heard of the "brown note" phenomenon. So, of course, I Googled it.
From Brown note - Wikipedia
That sounds pretty serious. The article goes on to mention that the space program performed tests on astronauts sitting directly on vibration tables because air is a bad conductor of low frequencies. The effects on the astronauts were thought to be the impetus of the urban myth.
Mythbusters also disproved that ~9Hz at loud levels could cause problems below the belt.
Interesting concept. I guess I learned something today. Thanks guys!
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
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At some point someone is going to hold a concert purporting to give every attendee the poops. They will administer massive doses of organic probiotics 8 hours before the show, and no band will ever show up. It will be hailed as a masterpiece of performance art.
