| Subject: | Re: excess noise or self noise |
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| From: | "Scott Fraser" scottbfraser |
| Date: | Tue Apr 3, 2012 7:44 am ((PDT)) |
<< It is more subtle than "masking" even. It is more like.... some character in the background/atmo/stereo-effect will "catch your attention", not "hearing" other things. It is not the same as "being subjective" it is more neurological than that.>> You've actually described "masking" here, while maybe thinking it is someth= ing else. Masking is the tendency for one frequency to obscure a nearby & s= lightly quieter frequency. Not so much neurological as psychoacoustic, whic= h is to say the masking effect occurs within the brain, not within the soun= dscape. In your example the aspens have a similar spectrum to the noise of = the recording system, thus obscuring the electronic noise by being a bit lo= uder & occupying the same general range of frequencies. That's just masking= at work. Scott Fraser |
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