Sentence examples for limits of human hearing from inspiring English sources

Some of these appear to react to sound waves of low pitch, well within the limits of human hearing.

And, of course, the range of possible sounds could be expanded exponentially beyond conventional orchestral instruments to the limits of human hearing.

All at once a female voice screamed, "Oh my God," and the music crashed into a monstrous wailing bass, down near the limits of human hearing, while the beat slowed to half-speed and lurched like a stumbling giant.

The team then moved to a codec that would play the sound beyond the limits of human hearing, but laptop microphones tend to be optimized for voice, so that didn't really work all that well.

But for reasons that researchers only partially understand the physiological limits of human hearing, for example, and cultural preferences that have evolved over time most music is based on variations of only five to 12 notes.

A synth player can add lower octaves to a patch by pressing an "octave down" button, which can produce pitches that are at the limits of human hearing.

Special microphones must be used to detect these low-frequency sounds, since the lower limit of human hearing is about 20 hertz.

Now mix in that the absolute limit of human hearing is 20kHz (and for most people more like 14kHz or less), and you realise the 44.1kHz sampling rate for CDs is fine.

The compression-decompression algorithm ("codec") used relies on psychoacoustical tricks to remove less audible parts of the signal like a quieter sound masked by a louder one occurring at the same time, or notes near the limit of human hearing.

Ultrasound is the cyclic sound pressure with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing.

Ultrasonic processing is the industrial application of sound waves with a frequency above the upper limit of human hearing.