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okay. so ive been reading through the production bible and there is 1 thing i do not understand, and that is what the hertz and decibel ranges mean and how they apply. if anyone could be so helpful as to explain it briefly it would be much apprecitated because google isnt helping :/

avunxdub wrote:okay. so ive been reading through the production bible and there is 1 thing i do not understand, and that is what the hertz and decibel ranges mean and how they apply. if anyone could be so helpful as to explain it briefly it would be much apprecitated because google isnt helping :/

hertz is what frequency or the note a sound is played at
decibel is the volume or intensity of that sound

Hertz
Decibel

deadly habit wrote:

avunxdub wrote:okay. so ive been reading through the production bible and there is 1 thing i do not understand, and that is what the hertz and decibel ranges mean and how they apply. if anyone could be so helpful as to explain it briefly it would be much apprecitated because google isnt helping :/

hertz is what frequency or the note a sound is played at
decibel is the volume or intensity of that sound

thank you

You've just grasped the two most important aspects of a wave.

It's frequency and it's amplitude.

It's pitch and it's volume.

Good question!

Think of the waves crashing on a beach. These are similar to soundwaves.

Each wave coming ashore will have a peak and a trough, i.e. a top and bottom. The point exactly between the top and the bottom of the wave could be considered the normal sea level. when there are no waves. This is akin to silence in audio terms. So the higher and lower the peak and troughs go, the louder the vlume of the wave in audio terms (or the stronger the wave is in the sea).

Decibels are the standard unit used to measure how loud music is, that is, the height and depth of the peaks and troughs of a wave.

Taking our analogy of waves in the ocean further, consider what happens when the waves hit the beach more regularly. To measure how often a wave comes ashore, we need to set a length of time for us to count how many waves come in. If we count the amounbt of waves that come ashore in 1 minute, we will be able to tell the frequency of the waves arriving ashore.

In audio terms, frequency is measured in Hertz. The more waves that can be measured in 1 second, the higher we percieve the pitch of the audio to be. As an example, 60Hz is slower than 15,000Hz, and thus we percieve it as bass instead of as a hiss.

Hope that makes sense lol

Patrick

futures_untold wrote:Think of the waves crashing on a beach. These are similar to soundwaves.

Each wave coming ashore will have a peak and a trough, i.e. a top and bottom. The point exactly between the top and the bottom of the wave could be considered the normal sea level. when there are no waves. This is akin to silence in audio terms. So the higher and lower the peak and troughs go, the louder the vlume of the wave in audio terms (or the stronger the wave is in the sea).

Decibels are the standard unit used to measure how loud music is, that is, the height and depth of the peaks and troughs of a wave.

Taking our analogy of waves in the ocean further, consider what happens when the waves hit the beach more regularly. To measure how often a wave comes ashore, we need to set a length of time for us to count how many waves come in. If we count the amounbt of waves that come ashore in 1 minute, we will be able to tell the frequency of the waves arriving ashore.

In audio terms, frequency is measured in Hertz. The more waves that can be measured in 1 second, the higher we percieve the pitch of the audio to be. As an example, 60Hz is slower than 15,000Hz, and thus we percieve it as bass instead of as a hiss.

Hope that makes sense lol

Patrick

Great descriptive work!

Phigure wrote:Hertz
Decibel

Ha Ha

I dont think he was looking to rent a car

Oh, and OP... look outside your window. yeah that's right, we're going to kill you.