The playing of a bass guitar in practice is accompanied by playing style things like death notes and damping the string(s) and touch or hiding the string(s) with fingers or hand.
These things don't let vibrate or oscillate the string, it's rather a short spike that is generated every time when playing the bass guitar in practice.
In signal theory an ideal spike (Dirac Impulse) is characterized by a spectrum that starts at DC and spreads inifinetly by steady level by missing discrete Harmonics like it is known for periodic signals.
As in real world a Dirac Impulse is impossible to generate there is often considered the Gaussian function that generates a spectrum that looks equal like the function itself.
So what happens if a death note is played on the bass guitar or the strings are damped or touched with fingers/hand.
The generated spectrum for sure does not equal the Dirac impulse and, very likely isn't quite the same like the Gaussian function but, it is soemthing in between the both and that's dramatical for a woofer at some point.
Allthogh it is noise it isn't actually perceived as noise cause this noise is very short in time. It contains mids and treble band frequency content so this noise is probably rather perceived as something that can be very pleasant and percussive and can well "improve" a rather rhythmic playing style.
The messy thing with this "transient noise" is that it can easily underrun a cabinets tuning and force the woofer to excessice random excursions beyond the linear limits.
That's then more dramatical cause those random woofer excursions can't be noticed as a "fart out" with ears. Of course as long as the excursion don't hits mechanical limit which would mean an instant damage of the VC but, never the less, random excursions beyond liniear limits over time are likely a very good bet to damage and in consequence wreck a woofer over time.
Some tools like compressor/limiter or overdrive are good enough to just intensify the effect of random excessive cone excursion caused by transient noise.
These things don't let vibrate or oscillate the string, it's rather a short spike that is generated every time when playing the bass guitar in practice.
In signal theory an ideal spike (Dirac Impulse) is characterized by a spectrum that starts at DC and spreads inifinetly by steady level by missing discrete Harmonics like it is known for periodic signals.
As in real world a Dirac Impulse is impossible to generate there is often considered the Gaussian function that generates a spectrum that looks equal like the function itself.
So what happens if a death note is played on the bass guitar or the strings are damped or touched with fingers/hand.
The generated spectrum for sure does not equal the Dirac impulse and, very likely isn't quite the same like the Gaussian function but, it is soemthing in between the both and that's dramatical for a woofer at some point.
Allthogh it is noise it isn't actually perceived as noise cause this noise is very short in time. It contains mids and treble band frequency content so this noise is probably rather perceived as something that can be very pleasant and percussive and can well "improve" a rather rhythmic playing style.
The messy thing with this "transient noise" is that it can easily underrun a cabinets tuning and force the woofer to excessice random excursions beyond the linear limits.
That's then more dramatical cause those random woofer excursions can't be noticed as a "fart out" with ears. Of course as long as the excursion don't hits mechanical limit which would mean an instant damage of the VC but, never the less, random excursions beyond liniear limits over time are likely a very good bet to damage and in consequence wreck a woofer over time.
Some tools like compressor/limiter or overdrive are good enough to just intensify the effect of random excessive cone excursion caused by transient noise.
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