Timeline for Why is the 5th stronger than the 1st in guitar spectrum?
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 18:25 | comment | added | user50691 | "string" should be "strong" in my previous comment. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 18:16 | comment | added | user50691 | @BenCrowell, to your comment about resonance being weak, that is a string statement. I think it depends on the guitar. On my classical it can dominate the sound for quite some time. Your statement is not self evident. I think the OP should be tasked with providing more/better info about the set up and data gathering before we all argue about what made it. It could be faked, made by a bot. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 18:14 | comment | added | user50691 | @BenCrowell, the problem here is that there is not enough info from the OP to even decide if you or Matt L. is on the right track (pun intended). I disagree with your comment though. If this is an acoustic then a lot of the initial energy could have been redistributed to the open string in sympathetic resonance where it will stay. You can clearly hear it in any acoustic guitar. Also, there is no telling what the time window is for the signal and that will change the spectrum. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 18:11 | comment | added | user50691 | Good answer, though I elaborated on your points a bit in mine. There is no comment in the OP about this being an acoustic guitar. Or did I miss that? | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 17:24 | comment | added | user9480 | @MattL.: I did the experiment myself and added spectra to my answer. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 16:54 | comment | added | Matt L. | @BenCrowell: that's perfectly okay with me, let's wait for the OP if he/she is willing to repeat the experiment with muted strings. Your assertion "normally pretty weak" is of course also purely speculative. Weak compared to what? Probably not compared to the amplitude of the third harmonic. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 16:48 | comment | added | user9480 | @MattL.: I don't buy it at all. The sympathetic vibration is normally pretty weak. And your answer, which is purely speculative, ignores all the known and inescapable effects in the acoustic and electronic signal chain. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 16:45 | history | edited | Matt L. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 16:07 | comment | added | Matt L. | @BenCrowell: If you try plucking a low E string on a well-tuned guitar you'll notice that the b and e strings start vibrating, so I don't agree with this being a very unlikely cause of what the OP sees. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 15:45 | comment | added | user9480 | This seems like a very unlikely explanation to me. Much more likely is just that the acoustic and electronic signal chain imposes layer after layer of filtering. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 15:00 | vote | accept | AlexanderCar | ||
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 14:59 | vote | accept | AlexanderCar | ||
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 10:37 | comment | added | AlexanderCar | I know that is the 3rd harmonic, in the title i was referring to scale degrees (and was also wrong, i've edited it) | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 10:29 | vote | accept | AlexanderCar | ||
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 10:28 | vote | accept | AlexanderCar | ||
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 8:44 | history | answered | Matt L. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |