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Do we feel bass or hear bass?

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All sounds are compression waves in the air (or for that matter other materials like water and the walls of my apartment). Normally your ears detect these and your brain makes sense of them as sound. read more

we don’t really know what bass actually is – although we certainly have instinctive understanding of its importance. Super-producer and Killing Joke bassist Youth sums up a huge amount of the appeal and complexity thus: “You feel bass more than you hear it and you feel it most in gut and your groin. read more

Across those frequencies, we hear approx. the same perceived volume relative to the Sound Pressure Level of the sound. Below 200 Hz or so (bass range) it requires more SPL to create the same perceived volume. TL;DR When you hear loud bass, the pressure level is much higher than when you hear the same volume of a mid range sound. read more

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