Tonedeafness + Pitch Perception

[Armin]

How tonedeaf are you? 80.6%
How perceptive of pitches are you? 0.6

[Sidoh]

75%, 0.9.  No musical training.

I'm pretty sure I have a hearing problem too, but I don't suppose that affects this sort of a test when you're wearing headphones.

Neat test, by the way.

[Ergot]

Umm... 75% 12.3!? The second test is terrible... I took it once and it said it failed or was out of range or something, took it again got 12.3 :|

[AntiVirus]

Rofl.. I did terrible on the first one.  But I think it was because my room mate and his friend were being really loud.  Either way, I got 69.4% on the first one, and then an error on the second one.  The same Error Ergot had.

[iago]

55.6%
8.1

This is just further proof of something I already know -- I am absolutely tonedeaf and have no musical talent whatsoever :)

[Joe]

44.4%. Good game, iago, but I lose!

[rabbit]

55.6%
8.1

This is just further proof of something I already know -- I am absolutely tonedeaf and have no musical talent whatsoever :)

You would be a great country singer...

[Chavo]

I haven't taken the test yet, but I imagine this test is pretty flawed considering the limitations of most computer headphones/speakers.

[Sidoh]

I haven't taken the test yet, but I imagine this test is pretty flawed considering the limitations of most computer headphones/speakers.

The differences in frequency aren't that significant.  I doubt it would be a problem.  I was able to pretty easily tell the difference in pitch at 1.5 Hz with a $15 pair of headphones.

[Chavo]

IIRC our hearing capability should detect changes in sound on the order of 1dB.  Again, IIRC, most cheap headphones can only handle changes of about 3-4dB.

[Sidoh]

IIRC our hearing capability should detect changes in sound on the order of 1dB.  Again, IIRC, most cheap headphones can only handle changes of about 3-4dB.

I don't think that decibels are 1:1 with Hz, though.  I thought it was the log of power and intensity or something like that.  It's been a while since I've looked at that stuff.

[Chavo]

yea, I wasn't trying to suggest a linear relationship with frequency.  I've tried to reword what I'm trying to say a few times and still don't think I'm saying it right, so...meh.

[Towelie]

80.6 on the tone deaf, and .75 on pitch
my speakers suck too much to do good on the pitch test :P

[Armin]

IIRC our hearing capability should detect changes in sound on the order of 1dB.  Again, IIRC, most cheap headphones can only handle changes of about 3-4dB.

I don't think that decibels are 1:1 with Hz, though.  I thought it was the log of power and intensity or something like that.  It's been a while since I've looked at that stuff.

Decibels (dB) is intensity/loudness, while frequency (Hz) is pitch.

[Sidoh]

Decibels (dB) is intensity/loudness, while frequency (Hz) is pitch.

A decibel is a way to measure "loudness."  Saying it is intensity/loudness is sort of like using a word you're trying to define in a definition.  Furthermore, a dB is dimensionless.  It's just a number.

The measurement is defined in several ways, but they all include a base 10 logarithm of a ratio between some measured number and a reference number.  A common example is intensity:



I_0 is usually defined as the "threshold of human hearing."

More accurately, frequency is the number of cyles a wave has per unit time (Hz is cycles/second).  If you have a pressure wave moving in air, it's the number of full cycles that pass a fixed point in some given number of time (again, usually 1 second).  It's also the inverse of the period, which you'll probably be able to deduct (if you didn't know already; I sort of expect you do, since you like sound and all) is the amount of time that passes during one cycle of the wave.  Pitch is kind of... the perception of frequency.