In a message dated 9/28/00 12:04:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: <<
> > --------I think that people will generate their own "toneshifting" based on > mood and personality, so to generalize it would be a detrement to the > thinking behind it.-------- >> Is "tone shift" an acoustical term, or something invented for this thread? The way it's being used here sounds a bit arbitrary. When I was in a hisory of music theory class, we talked about some acoustical phenonmenon such as: listening to pop CD's on the car radio for EQ ing. The car speakers can't produce the the low bass tone people claim to hear. Yet people swear they're hearing the low bass tone. The psychoacoustical explanation was that people hear the overtones of the sound, then psychologically superimpose the fundamental of the overtone series (from previous hearings of what a bass or bass drum should sound like (from their past experience). When I was in school , I never heard of the term "tone shift". But Hey!, I'm always willing to learn mediadrome
