Was waiting for this to be an 11 minute video in which Benn actually climbs Mt. Everest.
@mikacakes2 жыл бұрын
honestly none of us would even be surprised lmao
@h2o19692 жыл бұрын
Same, and I would have been impressed, but no, not surprised.
@rainbowkrampus2 жыл бұрын
@@Positive_Tea Next week: BENN... IN... SPAAAAACE!!!
@ElyssaM9899 Жыл бұрын
😂
@MG53v8 Жыл бұрын
Damn I thought he was
@TranscendentBen2 жыл бұрын
8:00 "Listen to how the audio not only changes in volume but quite drastically in timber." You've just inspired hundreds of Eurorack fans to want, and a few designers to make an "acoustic low pressure module." Or you could simulate it: Get the frequency response at various pressure levels, recreate these with EQ/filtering, and make a "Voltage Controlled Air Pressure" module.
@CausticCatastrophe2 жыл бұрын
its true.
@TheYrthenarc2 жыл бұрын
Well, if you already have a measurement microphone and a speaker in the vacuum chamber you might as well record an impulse response...
@forton615 Жыл бұрын
A pressure controlled reverb tank would be a good startproject.
@oddballsampler2 жыл бұрын
I used to study sound propagations through different mediums, temperatures, and pressures. I approve this message.
@ts4gv Жыл бұрын
Anything interesting about how sound behaves in liquids/solids? Specifically how reflections work, and if an interesting/meaningful impulse response could be captured
@olivierroy43352 жыл бұрын
The amount of work here in research and production is just stunning! You still push further your craft in every way! Thank you! :D
@allyourgardeningneeds2 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the enormous amount of effort that goes into researching, scripting, shooting, and editing a video like this. Thank you again, Benn.
@samn0012 ай бұрын
1:54 According to Master Handbook of Acoustics by F. Allen Everest, it states that "Sound travels faster in warm air than in cool air causing the tops of the wavefronts to go faster than the lower parts"
@LOLCoolJ2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the changes in pressure affect the microphone's sensitivity.
@ThatGuy-Official Жыл бұрын
Probably not unless the diaphragm and capsule housing were effectively a sealed chamber, creating a pressure gradient. As far as I know, the capsule housings of mics aren't sealed air tight so that there won't be pressure building on one side of the diaphragm from changing environmental conditions leading to inconsistent performance and potentially damaging the diaphragm.
@butterchuggins54092 жыл бұрын
I farted up there and it sounded just like an angel screaming
@namebrandbeatz2 жыл бұрын
I use to have a system in my Jeep in high school. And it had 2 12s. And in the winter there was a very noticeable difference in how hard and punchy they hit on super cold mornings. They hit much much much harder in the cold.
@lburger4042 жыл бұрын
I love these deep dive videos! The balloon in the field analogy was really helpful for understanding. Keep making awesome stuff!
@andycordy51902 жыл бұрын
Brilliant work. Loved the tank experiments. You did a heroic job AND pulled a virtual lightbulb out of your arse with sound effects. Broadcast history right there. .
@VenusTheory2 жыл бұрын
Okay hear me out: a pedal that uses a vacuum as a timbre morphing control. I'll pack my climbing gear.
@TranscendentBen2 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I'm too late with my comment ...
@Semper_Gratis Жыл бұрын
Glad I stumbled upon your channel. Im impressed with the thoroughness
@mieuxdisante Жыл бұрын
This made so much sense for me for a moment there, thinking of the timbre change with the buddhist chants originating from the Himalaya ... but then I thought there's people all around the globe living high up in the mountains - and how does their communication work? ^^ wow, anyway, mind-blowing Video once more, Benn! Really learned so much again, thank you for doing this. You're amazing!
@Trk-El-Son2 жыл бұрын
Prediction: Never heard anybody complain about the lack of sound up there, but given that further out we do lose sound completely, there will be a drop in volume at 8849m, but perhaps not more than, say, 2db, which nobody would notice, since it is dropping as people gradually ascend. Just my guess. But I wonder how the frequency response behaves when air density drops. Will look forward to the reveal.
@SyncrisisVideos2 жыл бұрын
I both like and learned something from this video! Since I've already subscribed, I'll check out your patreon :) edit-- joined patreon!
@tomaszbaran2 жыл бұрын
I was always under the impression, that acoustic instruments sound better on some days and worst on others. I thought it was air pressure and humidity. Thank you for doing the experiments, very interesting, specifically how the timbre changes!
@totally_not_a_bot2 жыл бұрын
Humidity matters a bit for wood instruments, mostly longevity, but high humidity makes wood swell and turn slightly softer which affects the timbre of the instrument ever so slightly. Mostly it's temperature. As a wind player warms up on a cold day, his instrument drifts slightly flat. That has to do with the resonant cavity lengthening. Strings need to tune when temperature and humidity change the shapes of their instruments too. Once those compensations have been made, this video kicks in.
@mikacakes2 жыл бұрын
These are definitely my favourite kinds of videos you make! I love the science behind the deep dives :D
@troybjones42 жыл бұрын
Education is fun :) takes me back to fluid mechanics in college - in aircraft performance circles we use the term Mach number as the non-dimensional speed of a plane. Mach 1 is defined as the speed of sound - but this value in meters per second changes with temperature and pressure (as you demonstrated!). Going Mach 1 at 10km altitude is much slower than at sea level. Fun stuff!
@createprince2093 Жыл бұрын
just discovered your channel and every video is a gem
@Promethalus2 жыл бұрын
brilliant stuff as always, loving the nerding out. So unexpected to hear the initial fluctuation in the sound
@VIRALBEATS3602 жыл бұрын
Who else was thinking about what that sound is like through a Wave table...? One of the most peaceful environments I have experienced, was at the top of Mt. Hood, in heavy snow. There is something about the silence, as the sound is stopped by thick snowflakes. The experience was more profound than the view, from the lookout point... especially coming out of the studio. Another great video! You guys should definitely hit the Pacific Northwest, on the way back, from NAMM.
@JFredrikAndersson2 жыл бұрын
Well, after Benn and Venus Theory-Cameron climbed down the caves we expect their next mission is to climb Mount Everest and have a conversation to really find out the answer to this 🙂
@claytonromero132 жыл бұрын
I love your deep dive videos. Thanks man
@martellackerman34342 жыл бұрын
I love these deep dives!
@szekeresgeza2 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if the condenser capsule of the measuring mic is affected by the density... Does thicker air mean a more resistive front plate, thus less sensitivity & volume drop?
@bornach Жыл бұрын
Similarly, the Bluetooth speaker diaphragm encounters less air resistance in thinner air so one might have expected increased amplitude
@stuckinaconstant71322 жыл бұрын
1:50 kinetic energy? wouldnt thermal energy fit better here?
@camerakungfu2 жыл бұрын
In high school I played a pep band gig in the Cedar Falls, IA UNI dome. I played bass and the 300watt amp i use was inaudible inside that pressurized building. The horns fared a little better but not much. A couple years later the dome collapsed in a snowstorm and they replaced it with a metal roof.
@morismateljan64582 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's quiet. So that in combination with howling winds will make a conversation almost impossible.
@BennJordan2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, also wearing oxygen and still not having the breath to speak surely makes it difficult!
@Gortmend2 жыл бұрын
But the howling winds would also be 18db quieter, presumably. My hypothesis: climbers don't notice the change because a) it comes on gradually, b) our brains are pretty good at adjusting volume, and c) it's such an unusual environment that they probably assume it sounds different because of the gear, etc. Maybe everyone thinks altitude causes tinnitus when it's really just the world being turned down?
@raininbrain2 жыл бұрын
omg I love these videos. Thanks Ben!
@newkfromrotterdam2 жыл бұрын
Great info! ..to me that timbre change was very intresting! Can we conclude (oversimplified) that low frequencies have more difficulty traveling at high altitudes?
@dexterman6361 Жыл бұрын
wait wait, in the cold, atoms are further spread out? Doesn't cold increase air density?? At 2:14? Or were you stating "a theory"? Also I see that dense materials allow sound to travel faster, such as steel, but warm air (which is less dense than cold air) is faster for sound? What am I missing!
@valiokeys2 жыл бұрын
The questions we've asked but we don't deserve. Awesome!
@TobiasSample Жыл бұрын
8:30 Ben’s ‘I do so love doing sound-science’ face
@BlackAera2 жыл бұрын
I like to imagine you as a wholesome Ben Affleck version of Batman, using your extensive knowledge of general science and audio physics to explain to us the wonders of our world. What a treat.
@byteborg2 жыл бұрын
I think that temperature will also influence the ratio of water (steam) solved in air, warmer temperatures leading to more dampening due to more mass per volume.
@FakthorX2 жыл бұрын
Loving the science and math! Beautiful analysis
@hardcoreherbivore47302 жыл бұрын
Was able to have a conversation with a friend across a lake at night. Just noticed his voice having a conversation with his parents, and called his name. The lake is maybe 700 yards. Total trip when from the perspective of a stoned teenager, we didn’t even know he was there. So we jumped in a canoe and went over.
@MrPolskaXboxNL Жыл бұрын
This dude has an underrated channel, it will grow big for sure
@SteveLydford2 жыл бұрын
I loved this video. It got me thinking about the effect that wind might have at that altitude too?
@ionianechoes2 жыл бұрын
Are you dropping the pressure maintaining the temperature constant? Because if you are dropping the pressure, naturally the temperature will drop and that might have an effect.
@TranscendentBen2 жыл бұрын
Oh Noes, now he has to make another video ...
@alter_igel2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing this! I am left wondering if the geometry of your vacuum chamber is actually leading to acoustic interference that changes with the speed of sound due to pressure. Not to ask you to repeat your experiments :) but would the same effects hold if the equipment was surrounded by acoustic insulation? Would there be different results from using a chamber with a different size? I find the rise and fall of the filtering effect while the pressure is steadily increasing to be really strange, and I think interference might be to blame for this.
@bornach Жыл бұрын
I suspect that size wouldn't matter. Tech Ingredients channel did similar sound suppression experiments using helium and changes in volume or distance had little effect. Most of the suppression happened at the air/helium interface. Although Benn Jordan didn't give details of his experimental setup, if the microphone is outside the chamber then the low pressure/high pressure interface would have played a big part in sound suppression. With both speaker/metronome and microphone inside of the low pressure chamber then it is the interface between vibrating solids and low pressure air that now matters most. The condenser microphone might also have been optimised for atmospheric pressures in much the same way our ear drums are adapted to sounds transmitted at sea level
@lucasgraeff53912 жыл бұрын
Benn 'VSauce' Jordan? this video (like all of yours) was incredible!
@Cloudsurfer692 жыл бұрын
your a inspiration Ben!!
@aroslaw2312 жыл бұрын
I am curious if our ears hear differently under such extreme conditions. Does temperature affect our hearing?!
@forrestroush2 жыл бұрын
i have always loved the way sound / pa speakers sound in the dog days of chicago and any place so hot and humid one is making their own gravy there is a "SQUISHY" quality to it =)
@forrestroush2 жыл бұрын
i have always wanted an air chamber like this but use different combinations of gas......
@MarkDShark11 ай бұрын
Great Video! As a sound engineer for over 30 years I just moved to a much higher altitude than where my old studio was. I defiantly have noticed a difference in how sound systems seem to perform quite differently here verses sea level. This brings me to a question in regards to density. Since you used Mount Everest as you reference for the high point, giving you A -19db drop, is air density linear? If so, could you calculate the db drop for 7000 feet based on your Everest calculations?
@gishuk2 жыл бұрын
Didnt expect that result at all tbh
@dakotaehret7928 Жыл бұрын
The amberlynn moon casually thrown in made me spit out my drink
@sjh32172 жыл бұрын
I'd definitely like someone who's actually been up there to chime in. I imagine conversation is already pretty hard up there because of the 80 mph winds.
@Emily_M81 Жыл бұрын
The Air Filter is going to be the next hot thing in electronic music
@Beyonder1881 Жыл бұрын
Pretty awesome experiment and well executed (entertaining at informative, as public broadcasting used to be). ...... Now, while we're at it, could you please produce a sequel to 'pale blue dot', I love that one so much.
@mrblablablabla2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I'd love to see more testing on other factors, like temperature, humidity, wind, etc. Another cool experiment would be to send up a balloon with some testing equipment. Then there's the psychoaccoustic side to it. Do you hear sound more loudly or quietly when under the influence of adrenaline, fatique, oxygen deprivation, etc.
@BriManeely2 жыл бұрын
Man, this was beautiful. Thank you for making this digestible enough for those of us who are a little mathematically challenged.
@8curious Жыл бұрын
your videos are awesome!
@andreywhoplaysthatcharminmusic2 жыл бұрын
if music is a primary language with many dialects, how many are there? how many musical ABCs are there? is there such a musical dialect that would consist mainly of kinematically "correct" sounds? what is the correlation between the language of the people and their attitude to life?
@camerakungfu2 жыл бұрын
It only 29,032 feet... how different can it be?
@mattwatsonthesecrethelicopters2 жыл бұрын
Loved this Benn. You should talk to fellow You Tubers Matt Parker (Stand Up Maths) and YT Physics guy Steve Mould. I could see some really great collaborations!
@bornach Жыл бұрын
And especially the Tech Ingredients channel. In their video "Helium is the World's Best Sound Suppressor" they did experiments such as playing the flute in helium and showing that sound suppression occurred independent of distance sound passed through helium. If Benn Jordan repeated the same for his low pressure experiment he might come to the same conclusions as Tech Ingredients did. Most of the sound suppression is accounted for at the interface between the low pressure and high pressure. This raises the subject of impedance matching which is where Steve Mould's video "There's a Lever in you Eat and it does Something Amazing" now is of particular relevance.
@mattwatsonthesecrethelicopters Жыл бұрын
@@bornach Great suggestion! I know the video.
@lvcifer-cloverfield Жыл бұрын
have never laughed so hard during a discussion of thermodynamics. thanks
@krazywabbit2 жыл бұрын
Next year, Ben and Cam literally travel to and climb Everest for some cool reverb bits and release a high level sound pack.
@MFKitten Жыл бұрын
I feel like the bluetooth speaker sound likely changed in timbre because of the physics of speakers, rather than it being the nature of sound itself.
@saxonguitarness2 жыл бұрын
Toss on the warm protective gear and you aren’t hearing nothing
@jonprudhomme76942 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. But how will you apply the differentials of temp and pressure to reverb?
@sonicspecter2 жыл бұрын
Only one way to know for sure: Climb up there and make some field recordings.
@nevermindful2 жыл бұрын
I love how even in a deep quest to answer a really complicated question, you're still dropping casual knowledge like "180hz is the average frequency of the human voice" which is incredibly cool to me and hard to even think about because is this average as in by dB or by most represented from 20-20k or what? Maybe I'm stupid but sound is so fucking cool
@terriblechan48042 жыл бұрын
thank u dr i feel like i actually learned something
@rezganger2 жыл бұрын
didnt watch it yet,but i wouldnt be surprised if you actually went there and did that one day. you make some really obscurely topiced videos and i really like many of them! its different and exiting. your voice sounds a bit deeper,maybe flatter? not bad but different. that,too!
@coolguy27832 жыл бұрын
what if he risked his life to do that and then only got like 2k views i would be heart broken
@Promethalus2 жыл бұрын
@@coolguy2783 risked his life with the caving !
@ga1actic_muffin2 жыл бұрын
very cool episode Benn! you should totally d one on what our music would sound like to aliens on different planets with different atmospheres ;)
@fakshen19732 жыл бұрын
Thunderf00t loves vacuum chambers. Collab? Also, with such a small chamber, would that chamber act as a resonant cavity... much like the interior of an acoustic guitar or violin? Less air would mean less energy reaching the body and bouncing into the microphone.
@pmbeats19042 жыл бұрын
i realll like these videos ! all the respect !
@MilGrip7611 ай бұрын
Could have been an hour plus, I'd still be enraptured... great video!
@neonblack211 Жыл бұрын
"there's no such thing as cold only the absence of heat" yeah but there's no such thing as heat either its just the average kinetic energy of the particles in a particular area, you can't have it both ways
@GillamtheGreatest2 жыл бұрын
time to capture impulse responses on everest
@Trk-El-Son2 жыл бұрын
Hmmm. I have seen more Everest/K2 documentaries than I would like to admit, but never, never, has anybody mentioned the sound loss. If it was -19dB, it would surely be an issue that people would be mentioning at one point or the other. Right?
@028fn48dne2 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many mountain climbers have blogged about this.
@francescocolangelo69002 жыл бұрын
Referee number 3: Nice. But let me be a bit sceptical about the experimental setup: What about the whitish noise that is generated when the valve is open? To me that noise sounds comparable in intensity to the sound source used for the experiment, drastically reducing the signal to noise ratio. I would have expected to see measurements performed at different pressure with the valve kept closed, instead of a single continue measurement with that noisy component. Less data points but more accurate. How different would be the final result?
@BennJordan2 жыл бұрын
I was only comparing the A and B. 😂 The valve noise is unavoidable so I didn't measure any dB during the acclimation.
@francescocolangelo69002 жыл бұрын
@@BennJordan Aaah ok. Thanks for the answer (and for the video!). You took the A data point, just before opening the valve and the B, after all air is again in. You could avoid the noise by closing the valve at certain pressure values and measure, obtaining other interesting data. In particular, spectral analysis would be interesting since the change in timbre you beautifully pointed out (due to resonances change of the air-vacuum box system?). For that, white noise would be the ideal source rather than saw wave, I guess!
@jeffmcdonald10122 күн бұрын
That's ok, good climbers don't need verbal communication.... thankfully.
@futur_sunds2 жыл бұрын
This is way to much for my brain to comprehend but these videos are still so entertaining to me lol
@creativestrengthstudio46742 жыл бұрын
What a great idea for a video
@JUNO-69 Жыл бұрын
Why has the algorithm not picked up on this content?
@joyboricua3721 Жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@GizzyDillespee2 жыл бұрын
What does music sound like on Uranus?
@JureJerebic2 жыл бұрын
dear lord
@tim-ferguson2 жыл бұрын
Ah, but what about the microphone... Is it not affected by the changes in altitude and temperature too? Or is it just analogous to effects on the human ear?
@neonblack211 Жыл бұрын
So mount everest is a high pass filter?
@doctorbobstone Жыл бұрын
Do climbers report this effect? It sounds like it would be really noticeable if it's as large as your experiments suggest.
@reinatycoon3644 Жыл бұрын
there is no sound in space though. The average molecule and particle density in space is 4 parts per cubic centimeter. No way sound will travel through that.
@malte24832 жыл бұрын
This Video is great! And very funny.It worxx. Thanxx from germany
@SimeonPilgrim2 жыл бұрын
That dots, clap, wink. Gold!
@Aaron-sl9ov2 жыл бұрын
Sorry, it's already two minutes in the video and I'm already having tears in the corners of my eyes and a tight stomach.
@MrSpasticdancer2 жыл бұрын
holy shit its a vacuum chamber high pass
@chrismillett2 жыл бұрын
I’m here for the Alton Brown of music videos
@derekded2 жыл бұрын
Next up: What does the planet's molten core sound like?
@CausticCatastrophe2 жыл бұрын
Today i learned you lived in my neck of the woods. cool vid!
@iamsushi10562 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@BillSeipel2 жыл бұрын
Fletcher-Munson curve?
@fredpeterson752 жыл бұрын
Did not expect an Amberlynn crossover lmao
@kurttruk9403 Жыл бұрын
04:56 so ya read Russian philosophy in Russian hm
@brittmurray98182 жыл бұрын
This is great. Any chance you could make a video for my wife that explains why I can't hear mumbling from another room directed away from me while I'm washing dishes (at sea level)? :)
@crouton_18232 жыл бұрын
This got me thinking. Can you cook a chicken with audible sound?