Interesting. Perceived intervals expand as you listen louder and shrink
as you turn the volume down.


yes, I dont know why this has been the trend in my life. The instrument thing
is probably because it's always rock bands that are tuning through headphones
or using them in the first place their headphones are often unbelieveably loud.
The male/female thing I'm not sure about but it's probably has nothing to do
with headphones as much as how different people are pitch sensitive. Does
anyone know if people have a harder time hearing sharpness above a certain
octave?

I had a chance once to experiment on a bunch of complete novices in a
class I taught with a vocal coach. Without exception, they all sang way
better in tune when none of their vocal was being fed to the phones.
Too bad we can't talk most folks into recording that way.

Oh I know, and I've done it to myself too. We all want to hear those little
details of our voice in the headphones but it's often death for the feel of the
performance because the rhythm goes along with the pitch.



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