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I've recently moved into a new home and hence have a new home studio.
On some days everything - my electric guitar plugged or unplugged, my digital piano - has a weird ringing quality to it almost as if you're hearing a recording made in the 1920s. There's a pulse to the notes that sounds awful. I'm pretty sure it's the room because I once taught in a studio that was that way all the time. In my home studio it's intermittent. I was thinking my room is too live but since the effect is intermittent I haven't done anything about it yet. Is this a temp/humidity thing? Would deadening the room minimize this on the days that it's occurring?
Thanks.
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10-03-2022 03:13 PM
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If you're playing under a ceiling fan..?
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I am! What's the connection?
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When the fan blades are spinning the sound is being reflected from them... but since they are in motion relative to the still air, the Doppler effect makes those reflections shift in pitch. The pitch shifts up in frequency when the blade is advancing on a sound wave, shifts down when retreating. Since there is a primary sound source, the blades will cyclically advance and retreat, and those pitch shifted reflections then maintain their acquired shift as they continue to bounce around the room, and into your ears.
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Also, avoiding perfect parallel and perpendicular surfaces helds reduce standing waves. I slant everything I can - computer screen, amps, speakers - to that end. Hard on my obsessive tendencies, but worth the sacrifice. Leaving the door open to the well-packed clothes closet in one corner acts as sonic-sink, so that helps.
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Thank you all for the great answers. I learned something today.
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Originally Posted by pauln
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Originally Posted by Freddy23
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Awesome trouble-shooting there Whiskey! I've heard the fan effect but didn't connect it to the OP's description.
I love to see this aspect of the forum in action: Problem? Problem Solved!
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Yeah, the only thing worse than playing under a fan is trying to tune under one!
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Originally Posted by whiskey02
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