Why is it that during loud concerts you feel the bass in your chest but not the higher notes despite them being the same volume.
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It’s a wavelength thing. High pitches are very tight and can destroy your hearing. Oddly bass is okay to a certain extent because it’s a wide wave.
Edit, doesn’t really penetrate like high pitch even though you feel the bass it doesn’t hit microstructures like your ears as hard.
Edit. I’m near deaf from high pitch, kinda like a wave in the ocean hitting you vs a red nozzle from a pressure washer that cuts your face off
The chest is a resonant chamber, which means that it vibrates in response to vibrations at its natural resonant frequency. When you hear a low bass tone, the chest vibrates because it matches this body part’s own natural resonant frequency. High notes don’t have the same effect because they don’t resonate at the same frequency as the chest.
High pitch notes are a rapid succession of bumps, too fast for you to feel.
The lower it gets, the more time your body will have to move between two bumps.
To feel a low note, the floor has to vibrate pretty slowly to match the frequency of the sound. To feel a high note, it would have to vibrate very fast. To vibrate very fast either there would need to be a lot more energy, or the floor wouldn’t vibrate as drastically. The fast but smaller vibrations get absorbed by the stadium, and would also just harder to feel in general
It goes based off the wave length. A smaller wave length will travel through your body with ease. A wider wave length will enter your body and resonate.
Bass travels in fields, whereas the higher pitches travel in waves.
The high pitches are directional – you can aim the speaker. But the bass moves in all directions, turning the speaker won’t change much.
It’s like the difference between a high pitch fart and a low pitch fart. They feel different because the air is moving at different speeds and the sound is a product of the air.
If your belly isn’t full of beer you’d feel it there as well as your chest.
Low frequencies travel farther, and are less easily absorbed, than higher frequencies at the same power. Hence the reason you’ll feel bass from a neighbors apartment without hearing any of the other sounds.
They are NOT the same volume, as it gets louder your ears (compress). Read about Fletcher Munson Curves they are an interesting phenomenon of human hearing.
* At low listening volumes – mid range frequencies sound more prominent, while the low and high frequency ranges seem to fall into the background.
* At high listening volumes – the lows and highs sound more prominent, while the mid range seems comparatively softer.
Yet in reality, the overall tonal balance of the sound remains the same, no matter what the listening volume.
Read more [HERE](https://ehomerecordingstudio.com/fletcher-munson-curve/)
Bass is more omni directional and can penetrate more layers of things than higher notes
Note.. bigger speaker cones with more energy hunger (High in ohm number) speakers has the better feel effect for both ear drums layer and chest. Which is not applied unfortunately by todays larger marketing speakers nowadays for both headphones and loud speakers
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