there are too many variables to learn anything from a test like that. what happens if the track with one frequency is one way, and the track with another frequency is in a different direction. What happens if a listener has preconceived ideas about the frequency?kdgh wrote:we could do a test.
make a track with the certain hz and let people comment of what triggers them. See if it's correct or not ?
maybe i'm too narrow minded with this one.
You can try to eliminate all the variables but then you end up with a cold empty room, some headphone and a double blind study. And you're not gonna learn sh!t all from that.
This frequency stuff is really important. Especially in techno, where we can do what the fck we like with timbre, with maths, with blah blah blah. And especially in a day and age where everything is forcefed... we assume that 12tET is all perfect and fine. We assume that we should pair a dominant chord with a reolved perffect whatever.
I think you have to try to start from the basics. Do I like this note more than another one? What is the basis behind these notes? The Greeks understood pitch and music. Many other ancient cultures understood these significant things.
Personally I feel like just tuning things by ear, for now. 90% of my decisions about pitch are inside interactions of synthesis, and it can be quite obvious what pitch is 'right', becuase everything jumps out.
But I'm going to be as sensitive as I can be to the significance of tuning. It's interesting as fck.