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Author: Hunter_100
Date: 2024-04-12 00:33
I have the TE Tuner app on my phone, it has this function for showing the sound spectrum when you play, that is peaks of intensity for the fundamental and harmonic overtones and their relative strengths. I feel like this could be a useful feature to improve tone, but I'm not sure how to use it any meaningful way.
Has anyone else used such spectral analysis before?
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Author: Hunter_100
Date: 2024-04-12 15:52
I was not thinking of multiphonics with this question. I was imagining something like long tone excersises while watching the spectral plot to see how subtle changes affect the mid and high frequency overtones. My problem is I don't have any reference to what a "good" sound looks like on this spectrum vs. a mediocre sound. I thought maybe this could be a more objective method if someone else had worked out the process.
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2024-04-12 16:31
I also tried using the TE Tuner to see if I could observe visually what constituted a good sound. Surprisingly (for me) the presence of the highest overtones only occurred when I was blowing too hard and making the sound quite forced- in other words playing with quite a "thin" sound. All of the measured overtones increase when I played louder. And different tones produces different levels of overtones. I can't say that I was able to discern a visual correlation (other than NOT seeing lots of the highest overtones) between a good sound and the readings on the App. But maybe I just didn't experiment enough.
My only conclusion really was that, for judging my sound, it was much easier to use my ears than my eyes :-)
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Author: brycon
Date: 2024-04-14 23:34
I use Tonal Energy as a metronome, tuner, and recording device on a daily basis and love it. I tried the sound spectrum analysis a few times, however, and had similar results to those of Liquorice: i.e. I could play the clarinet in a rather bad way and get the TE analysis to show an improvement in upper overtones.
I saw a video awhile back of someone looking at a famous clarinetist's tone using spectrum analysis. To me, it's a gimmick. So much of what we hear as a player's "sound" is matching timbres through registers, intonation, legato, air shapes, vocalistic phrasing, etc. Although it requires musical know-how and a good ear, focusing on these things yields much more beautiful clarinet sounds than getting 25% more of the 5th partial (or whatever it may be) into your tone.
Post Edited (2024-04-14 23:34)
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