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An original AudioScope listening test about hearing continuity when noise fills a gap in a tone. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/continuity-listening-hd.mp4 16 https://audioscope.com.au/polymap-guitar https://audioscope.com.au/assets/polymap-guitar-poster.jpg This Guitar Prototype Captures 64 Signals An AudioScope schematic explains the ETH Zurich PolyMap prototype, which uses eight pickups per string across eight strings. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/AudioScope_PolyMap_Original_Short_v1%20%2810%29.mp4 32 https://audioscope.com.au/does-this-sound-ever-stop-rising https://audioscope.com.au/assets/endless-rise-poster.jpg Does This Sound Ever Stop Rising? Hear an original 18-second Shepard–Risset glide and see why a sound can seem to rise without reaching the top. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audioscope-endless-rise-hd.mp4 18 https://audioscope.com.au/can-one-guitar-disappear https://audioscope.com.au/assets/guitar-null-poster.jpg Can One Guitar Disappear? Hear the same guitar centred, with one channel flipped, and summed to silence. See how a related idea helps headphones reduce noise. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audioscope-can-one-guitar-disappear-hd.mp4 30 https://audioscope.com.au/why-the-cabin-gets-quieter https://audioscope.com.au/assets/cabin-noise-poster.jpg Why Does the Cabin Get Quieter? Hear a simulated cabin rumble with noise cancelling off and on, then see how noise-cancelling headphones reduce steady low sounds. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/why-the-cabin-gets-quieter-listening-hd.mp4 19 https://audioscope.com.au/why-faster-playback-raises-pitch https://audioscope.com.au/assets/playback-speed-poster.jpg Why Does Faster Playback Raise Pitch? Hear a 440 Hz tone jump to 594 Hz and three pulses get closer together at 1.35× playback speed. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/playback-narrated-candidate.mp4 40 https://audioscope.com.au/why-water-lowers-a-wineglass-note https://audioscope.com.au/assets/wineglass-note-poster.jpg Why Does Water Lower a Wineglass’s Note? Hear why adding water can lower a tapped wineglass’s pitch while raising the pitch of a blown bottle. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/wineglass-narrated-candidate.mp4 40 https://audioscope.com.au/how-far-away-is-the-echo https://audioscope.com.au/assets/echo-delay-poster.jpg How Far Away Is the Echo? Hear a pulse and its echo 0.40 seconds later, then work out how far the sound travelled. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audioscope-echo-delay-narrated.mp4 36 https://audioscope.com.au/audio-plugin-deals-film https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audio-plugin-deals-film-poster.jpg Audio Plugin Deals | Synths, Guitar Effects and Sound Libraries Hear a synth brighten, a chord glide and an electric guitar pass through a compressor in this one-minute AudioScope film. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SBHftsWDdyg 60 https://audioscope.com.au/what-can-eyes-and-ears-pick-up https://audioscope.com.au/assets/sensory-range-poster.jpg What Can’t Your Eyes or Ears Pick Up? Compare visible light and audible sound, then hear two tones at 440 Hz and 1,760 Hz in this short AudioScope film. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/sensory-range-narrated-hd.mp4 19 https://audioscope.com.au/reverb-pre-delay-listening-test https://audioscope.com.au/assets/reverb-pre-delay-listening-test-poster.jpg Hear What Reverb Pre-Delay Does Compare the same hit and reverb with 0 ms and 80 ms of pre-delay. Listen for the space before the room sound begins. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audioscope-reverb-predelay-tiktok-captioned-hd.mp4 19 https://audioscope.com.au/narrow-eq-cut-listening-test https://audioscope.com.au/assets/narrow-eq-cut-listening-test-poster.jpg Can You Hear What This EQ Cut Removes? Hear a chord before and after a narrow EQ cut at 1.6 kHz. Listen for the ring that drops away. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audioscope-notch-eq-tiktok-captioned-hd.mp4 18 https://audioscope.com.au/audio-plugin-deals-listening-test https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audio-plugin-deals-listening-test-poster.jpg Can You Hear All Three Changes? Hear a synth brighten, three notes glide into a new chord, and an electric guitar through a compressor in this 22-second listening test. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audio-plugin-deals-listening-website-cinematic-hd.mp4 22 https://audioscope.com.au/small-speaker-bass-listening-test https://audioscope.com.au/assets/small-speaker-bass-listening-test-poster.jpg Where Did the Bass Go? Hear the same bass line through a simulated small speaker, then listen to what happens when upper harmonics are added. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audioscope-small-speaker-website-captioned-hd.mp4 20 https://audioscope.com.au/swing-timing-listening-test https://audioscope.com.au/assets/swing-timing-listening-test-poster.jpg Same Beat. Why Does This One Swing? Compare the same drum pattern at 120 BPM. Listen to the groove change when every second hi-hat is played later. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audioscope-swing-website-captioned-hd.mp4 23 https://audioscope.com.au/how-a-theremin-works https://audioscope.com.au/assets/theremin-pitch-poster.jpg How a Theremin Plays Without Touch Hear an illustrative pitch glide and see how two antennas let a player control pitch and volume without touching a theremin. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/BCVUTxlWlyw 40 https://audioscope.com.au/why-harmonics-change-tone https://audioscope.com.au/assets/harmonics-listening-poster.jpg Same 220 Hz Note. Why Does One Sound Brighter? Listen to two versions of a 220 Hz note. Which one sounds brighter? https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NEdGGOJMAAI 30 https://audioscope.com.au/what-is-the-missing-fundamental https://audioscope.com.au/assets/missing-fundamental-listening-poster.jpg Can You Hear 220 Hz Without Playing It? Listen to a 220 Hz reference, then hear what happens when only its higher harmonics play. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FsRxRXZXjag 42 https://audioscope.com.au/what-is-comb-filtering https://audioscope.com.au/assets/comb-filter-listening-poster.jpg What Does a 1.5 ms Delay Do to Sound? Hear how a 1.5 millisecond delayed copy changes the texture of the original sound. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/comb-filter-youtube.mp4 https://audioscope.com.au/what-is-ring-modulation https://audioscope.com.au/assets/one-tone-into-two-poster.jpg How Can One Tone Become Two? Hear how ring modulation turns a 700 Hz sine wave into tones at 530 Hz and 870 Hz. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/one-tone-into-two-youtube.mp4 24 https://audioscope.com.au/what-changes-a-sound https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audioscope-what-changes-a-sound-poster.png What Changes a Sound? Six Audio Demonstrations Hear six short comparisons that explain octaves, harmonics, missing fundamentals, clipping, quantisation and aliasing. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/audioscope-what-changes-a-sound-web.mp4 https://audioscope.com.au/why-passing-sounds-drop https://audioscope.com.au/assets/doppler-listening-poster.jpg Why Does a Passing Sound Drop in Pitch? Hear 440 Hz at rest, then compare the higher approaching tone and the lower receding tone in an original Doppler listening test. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/why-passing-sounds-drop-youtube.mp4 25 https://audioscope.com.au/can-you-hear-the-hidden-note https://audioscope.com.au/assets/can-you-hear-the-hidden-note-poster.jpg Can You Find the Note Hiding in This Noise? Compare two clips with the same 1 kHz tone and different noise bands, then hear the tone on its own. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/can-you-hear-the-hidden-note-youtube.mp4 25 https://audioscope.com.au/which-side-fired-first https://audioscope.com.au/assets/which-side-fired-first-poster.jpg Which Side Fired First? A stereo headphone test of the precedence effect. Compare two equal-level sounds whose arrival order reverses. https://audioscope.com.au/assets/which-side-fired-first-youtube.mp4 33