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Peter schmitz
Mar 21, 2023
Hi everyone, I'd like to share a really stupid trick I have devised for being able to determine the frequency of filtered noise. It seems one can, with better accuracy than you might think, match the sound of filtered noise by making a catlike hissing sound, like when a cat gets mad at you and goes CHHHHHH! 1000Hz is lips rounded, tongue to the back of the soft palette. 9000Hz is wide smile with tongue closer to the alveolar ridge. Everything in between is a continuum between those two positions. I used the practice white noise in the filter game to test this out.

I'd be curious to know if this works for anyone else. I have always liked to vocally imitate sounds, so it helps me to mimic sounds to understand them.
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Can copy that and it should work for everyone else, too, because you basically making creating the missing frequency that is missing and filling that missing space or you are adding to the already boosted section and increase the resonance of that area!
I think off Interval barks in Soundgym for a good training to recognize the resonance when you match the boosted frequency and either the full sound when you fill in the missing or hear yourself boosting it when comparing a cut to the original with filter off.
I thought about using this method, too as it really helps me, especially with the cut frequencies, but It rather helps your ear to focus on resonances than to distinguish spectrum areas without assistance.
Think of learning to ride a bike but adding support wheels. It can be very helpful and supportive at the first, but you should go on and remove them later or else you won't be able to ride without them.