I am not an audio person, so do not have much idea about technical terms - but I hear the words “bass” and “treble” almost everywhere now, especially in the equalizer app that came with  a new bluetooth earbuds that I bought (yes, I am still very much a wired-earbud guy, just dipping my toes in the wireless earbud ocean).

So what do these “bass” and “treble” mean? I guess I hear the sounds to be different when I monkey around with the equalizer. The sound is slightly deep/full for “bass” and less so for “treble”.

Is that all?

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The sound is slightly deep/full for “bass” and less so for “treble”. Is that all?

    Basically, yeah.

    Sounds that are lower in pitch (like the bass parts) have longer wavelengths. Any sound, whether it’s music, speech, or that annoying car alarm are just vibrations in the air made up of different wavelengths.

    An equalizer can boost certain wavelengths, so when you “turn up the bass” you are amplifying the longer wavelengths but not the shorter ones.