Thinking this would be great for lots of people. If you haven't got experience with tactile transducers or just want to troll, keep it to yourself.
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I don't know if it's so much about sound traveling through your bones to your inner ear. It just may be vibration on your body seems to coincide with the sound your ear is hearing.
When a cell phone vibrates in your pocket do you hear a pitch, or just feel it?
I don't think the play station game controllers vibrate to a pitch.
It would be an easy blind test, put a vibrator on a trigger that vibrates when you play any note. Things like this could be cheap from old cell phone or game controller parts.
Instead of leds, this could be wired with cell phone vibrators. The louder you play the more that turn on.
When a cell phone vibrates in your pocket do you hear a pitch, or just feel it?
I don't think the play station game controllers vibrate to a pitch.
It would be an easy blind test, put a vibrator on a trigger that vibrates when you play any note. Things like this could be cheap from old cell phone or game controller parts.
Instead of leds, this could be wired with cell phone vibrators. The louder you play the more that turn on.
I hear a pitch, but am I ACTUALLY hearing it or is my body assigning one so it can interpret the feeling?
Well this may be related
What’s Up With That? Phantom Cellphone Vibrations
"There are two types of receptors in the skin that detect vibrations: Meissner’s corpuscles, which specialize in slow vibrations, and Pacinian corpuscles, which specialize in higher-frequency vibrations. Most cellphones vibrate at between 130 and 180 hertz, which falls in between the sweet spots of the two types of receptors. Those vibrations probably activate both types of receptors, but probably activate the Pacinian corpuscles more, Bensmaia says.
Like Laramie, Bensmaia thinks phantom vibrations are a result of the brain’s penchant for filling in the gaps to find patterns. A visual equivalent, he suggests, is seeing the outlines of furniture when you walk through your house in near-total darkness, or seeing the Invalid Link Removed (it’s hard to see at first, but once you detect the pattern it’s almost impossible not to see it)."
It seems we have corpuscles to detect vibrations, but it may be a correlation to what our ears hear to what our brain detects as pitch. Our brains may be filling in pitch here. It'd be an interesting thing to try out.
Some clubs are just doing headphones, maybe they'll add these harnesses for extra charge.
What’s Up With That? Phantom Cellphone Vibrations
"There are two types of receptors in the skin that detect vibrations: Meissner’s corpuscles, which specialize in slow vibrations, and Pacinian corpuscles, which specialize in higher-frequency vibrations. Most cellphones vibrate at between 130 and 180 hertz, which falls in between the sweet spots of the two types of receptors. Those vibrations probably activate both types of receptors, but probably activate the Pacinian corpuscles more, Bensmaia says.
Like Laramie, Bensmaia thinks phantom vibrations are a result of the brain’s penchant for filling in the gaps to find patterns. A visual equivalent, he suggests, is seeing the outlines of furniture when you walk through your house in near-total darkness, or seeing the Invalid Link Removed (it’s hard to see at first, but once you detect the pattern it’s almost impossible not to see it)."
It seems we have corpuscles to detect vibrations, but it may be a correlation to what our ears hear to what our brain detects as pitch. Our brains may be filling in pitch here. It'd be an interesting thing to try out.
Some clubs are just doing headphones, maybe they'll add these harnesses for extra charge.
"Some clubs are just doing headphones..."
It's a great way to save power, money (after initial investment, of course) for clubs and an opportunity for underpaid musicians to do the same. I'm having my friend Ken Preese at iCoustic make something that I can put on my strap that is in a similar vein for apartment-headphone practice. Drummers are already using these on their thrones. Consider that you'd only need to bring your axe of choice, headphones and vibrator harness, pedal board and/or some sort of modeler to a gig. Or you just wear one of the pre-existing harnesses from the club, but have your own mix from the board. The drummers might hate it, because they'd have to play electronic, but the guitard could play as loud as he wanted and never drown out the bass or vocals.
It's a great way to save power, money (after initial investment, of course) for clubs and an opportunity for underpaid musicians to do the same. I'm having my friend Ken Preese at iCoustic make something that I can put on my strap that is in a similar vein for apartment-headphone practice. Drummers are already using these on their thrones. Consider that you'd only need to bring your axe of choice, headphones and vibrator harness, pedal board and/or some sort of modeler to a gig. Or you just wear one of the pre-existing harnesses from the club, but have your own mix from the board. The drummers might hate it, because they'd have to play electronic, but the guitard could play as loud as he wanted and never drown out the bass or vocals.
It's a very interesting technology, to say the least...
I recently had a hearing exam and one of the tests was striking a tuning fork and placing it on my forehead. It was striking, almost surprising how loud the fork sounded in my ears, but nearly unheard by simply listening to it in open air. Actually, at the time, I heard it mostly in my left ear and not so much in my right ear, which was the reason I was there in the first place. I was diagnosed with a blockage in a sinus cavity that a simple nasal spray was able to solve. But the tuning fork to the head (!) stayed with me. I've been thinking that there has to be a way to turn that into a way to listen to music or whatever.
And for years, in the 70s and 80s, before the small tuners came along, I would tune my bass by propping it on my knee, biting the edge of the bass, where I heard the bass wonderfully and was able to tune without the amp or a noisy DJ going on. Yeah, that looks weird after writing it, but I'm leaving it...
I recently had a hearing exam and one of the tests was striking a tuning fork and placing it on my forehead. It was striking, almost surprising how loud the fork sounded in my ears, but nearly unheard by simply listening to it in open air. Actually, at the time, I heard it mostly in my left ear and not so much in my right ear, which was the reason I was there in the first place. I was diagnosed with a blockage in a sinus cavity that a simple nasal spray was able to solve. But the tuning fork to the head (!) stayed with me. I've been thinking that there has to be a way to turn that into a way to listen to music or whatever.
And for years, in the 70s and 80s, before the small tuners came along, I would tune my bass by propping it on my knee, biting the edge of the bass, where I heard the bass wonderfully and was able to tune without the amp or a noisy DJ going on. Yeah, that looks weird after writing it, but I'm leaving it...
There's a pic of Paul McCartney tuning his Hofner in the dressing room. He's pressing his maxillary bone/cheek to it. No amp.
I was considering mounting one of these to the back of my bass, but probably too much feedback and...sensation
I was considering mounting one of these to the back of my bass, but probably too much feedback and...sensation
