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The Quest to Find the Brown note

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.
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...
Or perhaps an epileptic seizure, as in certain Japanese TV shows, I suppose one side effect of which might be :poop:. But that's not the true legendary "Brown Note".
 
Lemmy said they had a ring modulator they used in Hawkwind & it made some people freak out at certain frequencies.

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 :roflmao:
 
Hi,

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
In September 2009, London student Tom Reid died of sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) after complaining that "loud bass notes" were "getting to his heart". The inquest recorded a verdict of natural causes, although some experts commented that the bass could have acted as a trigger.

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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