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Also it just sort of stopped! Then he went and told a story with so many irrelevant pieces of info that I had no idea what the point was.
The missing fundamental - it's a sound illusion, basically. Musical notes are usually composed of the basic frequency that we call the note, then higher frequencies that form a pattern above the note and give sound its texture/ tone.
Turns out our brains hear the note, even if you get rid of it and only leave the pattern of higher frequencies (called harmonics or overtones). It's why we can hear the difference between the low E on a bass guitar and the E an octave higher, even through an amp and speakers that can't actually make the sound at about 41Hz for the low E. Our ears hear those higher harmonics and our brain fills in the missing low end.
But this page just is insane, with loads of unrelated pictures and logical leaps. I do think it's either a madman or someone having a laugh.
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Before that, bass cabs tried to go down to the fundamentals, but the speaker technology wasn't good enough back then to produce a tight, efficient output and the result was a farty mess which didn't actually sound that loud and often still missed the very lowest notes.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
This is a well known phenomenon.
It also explains why I think a lot of low bass in a mix is not needed.
I used to play electric viola in the 70s and through an Electronic Harmonix Octave Multiplexer it sounded like a comb filtered arpeggiator hunting for the fundamental, when in fact the overtones were more prominent.
It seems utterly incoherent.