guitar science experiment
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- versa
k - so you all will think i'm a stoner, but i'm not .. really
so, anyways, who here plays bass or guitar ?, cause i saw a pretty cool visual effect today, that i wish i had the hard science smarts to explain to myself ...
i was playing some stuff on my acoustic today, with the low E tuned down to a D, and happened to look really closely at the vibration of that string with my monitors and the light they emit in direct view behind ...
the flicker of the monitors simulated a strobe type effect making the string vibration look almost rubbery and weird
someone explain this play of light to me ...
- pascii0
i play the bass and would be interested too!
- spiff0
My strings are really loose, esp. the G, they do that.
- spiff0
Were you playing a chord or just strumming the high e?
- versa0
playing triads that included the low E tuned to D, but when i really see the effect, is just plucking the low E tuned to a D, and letting it vibrate on its own as the E
- scarabin0
it's the same thing as a strobe. you're only seeing certain frames of it because your brain is syncing to the flickering of the monitor.