Monthly Archives: September 2006

More stuff I already know, but a lot more interesting than last week! Always good to get a different slant on things as well I suppose, and get an idea of what exam questions would be like. Yes, I know, … Continue reading →

Really not much to report here. Extremely boring, verging on timewasting – if he pulls a stunt like this on a Champions League night there’ll be trouble!!

Psychoacoustics, also known as the study of sound perception. Your brain has the ability to do a lot with sounds, including localisation (determine where a sound is coming from), perception of distance, and something called the Cocktail Party Effect. This … Continue reading →

Found out why you only get Long Wave radio when you’re driving through the hills – it’s to do with the way the lower frequencies can bend around obstacles, while higher frequencies (like FM radio) just bounce off them. Thank … Continue reading →

Tonight we learned about the ‘characteristics’ of a sound, in particular what makes, say, a guitar sound different from a violin or a piano or a voice, and in turn what makes people’s voices unique. Very interesting, I now have … Continue reading →