Digital Stethoscope By Thinklabs
I’ve been testing this Digital Stethoscope by Thinklabs. Unlike most digital stethoscope, this one has an audio out port, which allows you to connect it to a computer or MP3 recording device.
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Amon Tobin is hunkered down in his studio deep in the redwoods of Northern Californian and has begun work on a new album. In addition to researching and developing new production tools and techniques of his own, he’s ensconced himself in a whole new array of gadgetry from the past and the future.
Tour dates and outside projects have been put on the back burner for now – Amon recently tuned down a lucrative high profile scoring opportunity — in order to focus solely on studio recording.
One of the main investigative areas here is tactile sound. So what is tactile sound exactly? It is the sensation of sound transmitted directly to the human body by contact, rather than by sound waves through the ears (or via tympatic sensation).
More specifically, it is sound perceived through bone conduction, through muscles and deep tissue, and via skin sensation. We perceive the vibrations through our haptic senses which include both kinesthetic (muscle) and touch (cutaneous) senses. We feel both inaudible (infrasonic frequencies) and audible frequencies. Thus, tactile sound is not just brute rumbles and shock waves. Tactile sound can be perceived in high fidelity up to the mid-range frequencies. According to NASA research we perceive 0-1 kHz through the sense of touch, 0-30 kHz through kinesthesia (the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body), and 0.20 kHz to 20 kHz through our ears. Note there’s an overlap — in the 0.02-1kHz range.
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The best audio visualizer is WhiteCap by SoundSpectrum.
I consider this piece of software a breakthrough in terms of its ability to translate audio into reactive geometrics. Excellent synchronization.
You can download a trail version for free. There are two paid versions: a $20 version called WhiteCap Gold, and a $30 version called WhiteCap Platinum. The Platinum version includes a WhiteCap screen saver and support for multiple media players.
Overall Rating: ***** (five stars)
This review was Reactual Independent Evaluation.
Foldable Fractal by Marius Watz
Welcome to Reactual Labs. We specialize in designing automated, reactive tactile-visual systems. We design our systems using simple components and techniques. During this series, we will cover the following:
- Optimizing Tactile Sound Systems
- Advanced Reactual Theory
- The Making Of A Phoenix Room
- Minimalist Sound Rooms
- A Guide To High-Fidelity Tactile Sound Reproduction
- Transducer and Actuators
- Isolation Capsules and Chambers
- Exotic Sub-frequency Effects
- The Art Of Overdrive
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