The Beating Effect

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Written by Danny Poole | 21 April 2009

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There are 2 coloured cycles (waves) in this diagram, the blue represents the note you will tune to (6th string, 5th fret), the red represents the note you are tuning (5th string open). When two notes are played together and they are slightly out of tune with each other, the cycles interact and produce a beating sound. As you bring the strings into tune the beating effect slows down until it stops. When it has stopped the two notes are in tune with each other.

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1 = the note being tuned to
2 = the note being tuned

Listen to The Beating Slowing Down reg_audio_2

 

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0 #4 RE: The Beating Effect — Kushal 2010-04-09 19:19
There's noise in the background in most of the tuning audios coz the microphone volume has been set too high... and it ain't the vibration. Can be easily solved by using a bandpass filter so as to lose it while keeping only the necessary sound bandwidth.
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0 #3 Audio Fixed — danpoole 2009-11-02 06:54
The audio is now fixed for this page.
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0 #2 Beating effect — Billy Taylor 2009-09-28 01:13
No sound from MP3 example
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0 #1 Jesus Arroyo 2009-09-13 21:46
This mp3 example is not playing
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