“In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper.”
- Gary Ponderosa ( @GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world ) English4•1 year ago
Hahahahahaha. I get this joke. It is very funny. You should probably explain it for the other people who are not so smart as me who is smart.
- theorem ( @theory@mander.xyz ) English9•1 year ago
On a normal scale, the ticks go 1…2…3…4…
on a log scale, ticks go 1…10…100…1000…
Sound and frequency, weirdly, is always in a log scale, you just dont notice it
Time however, usually shouldnt be 😂
- Gary Ponderosa ( @GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
Thanks. I guess I never realized notes were on a log scale.
- Julian ( @julianh@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year ago
If it helps, going up an octave doubles the frequency. So we perceive the difference between 100hz and 200hz to be the same as the difference between 300hz and 600hz.
- atimholt ( @atimholt@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
I think there’s a website called “xkcd explained”, or something.
- KickMeElmo ( @KickMeElmo@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
You have to know music and math to appreciate this, true.
If you need an explanation I’d say read the intro for log scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale
And then listen to https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI
- drowned Phoenician ( @drownedPhoenician@feddit.de ) English2•1 year ago
And thus the spectrogram was born