Listen to the ingredients of a ring

Three short synthetic comparisons. These are mathematical sounds, not recordings of a real bell or a pitch-perception test.

Silent. Choose a sound to hear a four-second example.

All components begin together, with higher components given faster decay. Notice whether the changing balance affects the tail’s character.

Start with your device volume low. User-started only; four-second limit, gentle onset and final fade. The two groups differ in frequencies, so this is an ingredient comparison, not an isolated controlled test of harmonicity or a matched-loudness experiment.

For real research recordings, visit UNSW’s bell-plate experiments.