[sdiy] Request brain dump on balanced lines -- harmonic numbering

[Peter Grenader]

on 10/14/02 4:27 AM, Dave Krooshof at synthos at xs4all.nl wrote:

> Huh?
> I, for one, hear frequency as a linear thing (bogus remark).
> Seriously, if you look at frequency as a linear scale, the above is true.
> The frequencies, in Hertz, of a 100Hz tone are:
> 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 Hz etc.

Guys and gal,

Guys -

Get out a frequency counter and run these frequencies together - the result
will be quite dissonant and, outside of the first and second octaves, not
part of the natural harmonic order of an overtone series.  200 will be fine
as it is an octave.  400 will be fine as it is two octaves above the
fundemental of 100Hz. the 300 and 500 however won't be and is the basic
fundemental concept behind a frequency shifter (all frequncies shifted by an
equal number of hertz is what I am reffering to). We don't hear linearily,
string vibration nodes do not behave linearily in that regard and because of
that they don't behave linearily.