Posted by Rick Denney on June 05, 2001 at 12:48:42:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Best tuba for low range posted by Frederick J. Young on June 02, 2001 at 15:53:56:
I use a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card. It has the best performance of any of the sound cards in the consumer range (read: costs less than $100).
A microphone with good response into the tuba pedal register is much more expensive and difficult.
And there are other considerations. The recording room may will influence the apparent pitch of notes by how it colors the sound. I'm not sure that the pitch of the fundamental is really the pitch that the ears hear. The overtones are stronger than the fundamental, and can fool the ear into hearing the pitch differently.
As to whether a note is really in tune or not, the final arbiter is the listener, not the spectrograph. It seems to me that if it sounds in tune, it is in tune. As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the tasting, not the recipe.
Rick "who can hardly hear a 32Hz fundamental with no overtones" Denney