Steve got the gist of my message. I appreciate the other comments though, and I would much like to experiment with different earbuds/phones to hear what there is to hear. I meant to report my surprise at the clarity of the horn sound that I experienced - I heard nuances of the not-wonderful kind, as also Steve reports - it is as if there is no sonic shrubbery to hide behind. I intend to use the earbuds to play along with the mmo stuff regularly - not exclusively - with the hope that passing the tin can test signals discernible improvement for real. I have also used cheap low-down external earbuds - they allow too much of the outside sound in, and they don't produce this eerie effect. I wonder if much of the horn sound I hear with the noise-reducing earbuds comes from bone conduction. Would some brave physicist care to weigh in on that?
David G Steven Mumford wrote: > I took David's comment to be less about the actual earbuds than about the > effect of cutting all that extraneous lushness and beauty out of the horn > sound with the side effect of hearing some unexpected things. > I noticed something like that a few years ago playing with earplugs. I > couldn't hear my tone very well, but I started noticing I could really hear > the quality of the attacks. I started noticing that they were not exactly > what I might have hoped for. Anyway, it made for kind of a nice cheap self > diagnostic tool for working on attacks, although my tomatoes are still killer. > > - Steve Mumford > > David G wrote: > > I used to write here about the joys of playing along with song > collection books that have piano or orchestra accompaniment on CD. I > mp3'd some of these accompaniments for portability. Lately, I began to > use them with noise-isolating earbuds, so as to not fill up my house > with loud piano playing, only loud horn playing. > > These earbuds (Scosche, pretty good quality) eliminate most of the horn > sound, so the volume setting for the accompaniment doesn't have to be so > high. But the timbre of the horn seems very much stripped down - I might > as well be playing a tin can. This simplified sound though makes it > easier to hear certain qualities other than stunning lush tone <humor>, > like intonation and quality of entrances. The experience is a little > like wearing earplugs when you have to play in a dangerously loud > environment, except for the accompaniment sound that you want to come > through. > > Has anyone here experimented with this kind of isolation, find it > useful, unuseful? > > David G. > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/goldberg%40wccnet.org > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
