(April 24, 2015 at 12:20 pm)Alex K Wrote:(April 24, 2015 at 11:49 am)pocaracas Wrote: Shouldn't? why?
It's very possible that some frequencies get dampened in the Eustachian tube.
There's a big difference between changing the relative strength of overtones and singing out of tune. If I sing an a, the frequencies I produce at the same time are ideally
440, 880, 1320, 1760 Hz,.. and so forth..., where 440 is usually the strongest and defines the pitch. The characteristic texture of my voice is mainly created by the relative strength of these components, and what I hear in my head and what is recorded will mainly differ in this respect, which of those overtones are amplified to which extent. If on the other hand I changed the frequency and sang 430, 860, 1290, 1720 Hz instead, I'd be out of tune.
Believe it or not, I realized you said that... 5 seconds after pressing the post button on my reply up there...
But if some of those harmonics are missing or dampened, it will sound weird... and this weirdness can be interpreted as out of tune...
Maybe it'd be in tune, if the person didn't know it was him/her-self who sang that recording.
Expectations play a big role in our perception of sensory input.
