I love how it goes from actually sounding kind of cool, to literally sounding like ear damage personified, and then inexplicably becoming interdimensional communication noises from beyond the colours of time
Honestly, I think you hit the point where you were attempting to produce frequencies that your speakers were incapable of making lol Would love to see this on a huge powerful speaker.
The maximum frequency of most speakers is around 15-20kHz, plus anything above around 20kHz is usually inaudible to humans anyways so it would make sense that that's around the range the sound just gives up
You also have to consider aliasing from most hardware not being built to handle such a high hertz input. Most can represent signals up to 22khz accurately but when your *funadamental* is like 12k-20k all the natural overtones are getting aliased. It's even worse when you're using distortion on top of that which produces even more overtones.
not all pitch shifters are built equal, The pitch shifter that he’s using in the video (kilohearts pitch shifter) has a very grainy sound when it’s pushed to extremes like this
Thank you Nik. Without this I never would have known that my tinnitus is an A#7. I don't know what to do with that information, but it's kinda neat and that's all I can ask for
We need a series update to this where you are putting audio out of speakers capable of producing those frequencies. So that we can truly hear how high notes go
Your phone/laptop or smart fridge would then also need to have speakers capable of producing them, and you have to make sure UA-cam doesn't erase them while compressing. What you hear in the end when watching the video is the weakest link in the chain.
I remember when downswing first hit the scene, I thought that their brand of "tuned up" metalcore was gonna gain some traction. At the time I thought the downtuning war was over. Evidently, the war was not over haha
After watching Rob Scallon talking to Mike Batio about how the days when rockers wanted higher and higher notes and that’s why they started using 7 strings. To go higher not lower. They would have love this. Btw deffo recommend watching if you haven’t it’s quite wholesome
Vektor is a modern thrash band that tunes to F standard. I cant think of many bands that tune up. I kinda liked the A# tuning, and the octave up tuning. It could be used for a computer tech-y type thing.
If you're gonna use a pitch effect, use pitchwheel if you're playing live since it sounds great with no delay, but for post processing I would use Elastique pitch since it sounds insanely clean, but it has plugin delay
The E6 tuning shredding just sounds like the intro to an 8 bit Kirby song ^^ Would also be really interesting to hear a song that combines both videos, going between both min and max tunings
Considering the fact that human ear can only hear frequencies between 20 Hz and 20000 Hz, it's actually funny that we all heard every note played, even after going above the 20 kHz
I'm a pretty new beginner on the guitar, starting with acoustic and all I can play's just some simple hymns right now, stuff like that. But these videos are actually helping me learn the actual music aspect of the guitar, if that makes sense. Thank you, bro! Sick vid
So, human hearing caps out at ~20,000 hertz (and since we’re metalheads, safe to say we aren’t getting the full 20,000), which means everything past that is just the lower frequencies that also get produced, which is why it didn’t sound different, just quieter, because we can’t actually hear the full note (and chances are your audio system can’t play it. My earbuds max out at like 22,000, and they’re some good quality ones)
You ever think of doing a higher pitched song? There's a video of Pete Cottrell where he played Metallica riffs but tuned up and they sounded pretty awesome.
The human ear can only hear tones up to 20,000Hz. And that’s like really young, pristine ears, not our ears that have been destroyed from years of thrash metal. Also, my dog hated this video.
from alien communication through ghostly transmissions and summoning demons then onward to the screams of anguish of the damned and finally conversing Cthulhu and the Great Unspeakable Horrors. Glad my hearing is already screwed through long term headphone use
I actually have meniere's disease so have lost a huge chunk of my high end so i lost you before you decided to see how bad wonder wall sounded. So now im just watching your reaction to silence in the high notes. If i had my hearing aids in it would probably be an awful experience to be fair
Trust me, you don’t need your hearing aids. You heard enough poor child. I just wish my idiocy with animal deterrent flashbang grenades took more of my hearing so I didn’t have to listen to the bagpipe noises Nik eventually made.
Not related but great pfp. There Is a Hell is an amazing record and imo BMTH got better when they released it although Sempiternal is one my favourite albums from them and one of my favourite albums of all time.
Fuckin' Scotty be out here hollerin' "There be whales here, Captain!" while he's looking through some transparent aluminum after Nik hit that E>13 high note...
This was actually really entertaining to see you just fucking around with stuff that shouldn't be done. It's insane that the camera can't even pick up the 15Khz+ frequencies correctly. I think you might've unlocked a gate somewhere with the 168Khz
I remember Dave Mustaine saying that if he were going to use a 7-string guitar, the additional string would be higher, not lower. That said, everything over about 8kHz sounded screwy through whatever youtube did + my headphones + what a long history of loud music have done to my ears. Even so, somewhere north of 20kHz, all of my earwax melted and dribbled out. I'm favoriting this video to save on Q-Tips in the future.
I'm grateful to have the hearing I do, I have slight hearing loss but the main thing is that some frequencies cut out, some people's voices are hard to hear, especially with background noise.
Would be cool to see this done analog. Actually get some really thick and really thin strings and see how high and how low you can get a guitar to actually play without any pitch shifting. Then of course you can throw a wammy pedal on it just to annoy the cat.
Let's all acknowledge what this man created. Everyone, Nik gave us AliEN metal. It's fascinating, very disturbing, ???, And funny metal. Nik make a song with this creation now! Lol
*Smash like so I never have to do this again*
Oh but see, now we’re gonna demand more. Youre a victim of your own success buddy.
I’m lucky that im deaf
I liked g4
I hope you brought your earplugs
Should have tried to sweep
YOU ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY
Racing games be like
@@VirtuosityGG If I cant win I'm taking the field with me
@@salvagedmetal lmfao
@@salvagedmetalalso channel is dope af
@@ixcchavez6889 Much apricated man 🙏
This is like an elementary school hearing test. "Raise your hand when you hear the tone"
i thought the same thing
Same
This man did the unthinkable to us metalheads. WTF IS HIGHER
Nah, the whammy Dt proofs you wrong
most metalheads are high af xD
Being a guy who plays melodeath I've always liked high notes, I actually liked the first few tunings unironically up to that E3 low end.
Another hit
Insert creed joke here
My man is pushing the limits, next video is going to be how far notes can go sideways
Is that slowing and speeding but keeping pitch
With the crab walk... Indefinitely sideways 😂
fucking pitch thing
um occilassion??
woovwwoovwooooveowooo shit
@@chanahasnomana 😂
bending haha
"We're at E3"
This man is the only man who went to E3 this year...
I love how it goes from actually sounding kind of cool, to literally sounding like ear damage personified, and then inexplicably becoming interdimensional communication noises from beyond the colours of time
Imagine in another distant universe there were such thing as music in this high of a frequency being played by aliens
And it would be considered heavy af by them 😂
Fan theory: the hit album "ultrasonic pest repeller" is actually another one of nik's boundary-pushing projects
I was deaf the first five seconds
THIS
If dimebag Darrel had this tho
The pinch harmonics would be insane
He did 😅
a LoNg TiMe AgO i NeVer KnEw MysElF
The next video should be "the MIDDLEST Guitar tuning possible".
The trilogy will be complete.
Just Nick playing wonderwall in e standard for 9 minutes
He has to pitch shift all the down , and add another to pitch shift it back up = middle
Tune every string to the same note
@@heather2503E RUSH
Honestly, I think you hit the point where you were attempting to produce frequencies that your speakers were incapable of making lol Would love to see this on a huge powerful speaker.
The maximum frequency of most speakers is around 15-20kHz, plus anything above around 20kHz is usually inaudible to humans anyways so it would make sense that that's around the range the sound just gives up
You also have to consider aliasing from most hardware not being built to handle such a high hertz input.
Most can represent signals up to 22khz accurately but when your *funadamental* is like 12k-20k all the natural overtones are getting aliased. It's even worse when you're using distortion on top of that which produces even more overtones.
not all pitch shifters are built equal, The pitch shifter that he’s using in the video (kilohearts pitch shifter) has a very grainy sound when it’s pushed to extremes like this
Thank you Nik. Without this I never would have known that my tinnitus is an A#7. I don't know what to do with that information, but it's kinda neat and that's all I can ask for
I am so glad I watched this with headphones on.
Not connected or anything, just an extra layer between my ears and Nik Necromancer summoning ghosts.
We need a series update to this where you are putting audio out of speakers capable of producing those frequencies. So that we can truly hear how high notes go
Your phone/laptop or smart fridge would then also need to have speakers capable of producing them, and you have to make sure UA-cam doesn't erase them while compressing. What you hear in the end when watching the video is the weakest link in the chain.
@@merijnbras8901 💀
The A5 - A9 dissonence sounded actually really cool. I would like to put it in a song, but im scared the pets would go wild.
I remember when downswing first hit the scene, I thought that their brand of "tuned up" metalcore was gonna gain some traction. At the time I thought the downtuning war was over. Evidently, the war was not over haha
The war has just begun
My body is physically rejecting these sounds
I'm shocked that Nik didn't even play Higher by Creed even once when doing this experiment
I never knew Nik could get any HIGHER.
So that was an interesting journey from ukulele metal to alien ukulele metal in 9 minutes.
Guitarists hate this one simple trick, but they can't stop you.
There’s a tuning higher then drop D?
idk bro after he said the letter 'G2' I logged off.
Wait, there's a tuning higher than D standard?
@@MiloOfApacheAttackHelicopter ha ha ha
@@MiloOfApacheAttackHelicopter THATS WHAT IM SAYIN
@@crownjewel555 wait like DropG?
After watching Rob Scallon talking to Mike Batio about how the days when rockers wanted higher and higher notes and that’s why they started using 7 strings. To go higher not lower. They would have love this. Btw deffo recommend watching if you haven’t it’s quite wholesome
Somehow I found myself sitting through all 9 minutes and 15 seconds of agony. 🤣
And enjoyed myself the entire time.
8:50 is literally alien talk!
The notes went so high they became indistinguishable from my tinnitus
my ears bleed.
Imagine a pinch harmonic on the highest note
We so need song made of lowest and highest possible tunings
Forget chug chug bree, we need wub wub *alien communication*
never thought i’d see the day when nik goes higher
Sorry Creed we can not take you any higher then this
Vektor is a modern thrash band that tunes to F standard. I cant think of many bands that tune up. I kinda liked the A# tuning, and the octave up tuning. It could be used for a computer tech-y type thing.
Nik: "How much do I hate myself"
Me: " how much do I hate myself to watch this on full volume"
If you're gonna use a pitch effect, use pitchwheel if you're playing live since it sounds great with no delay, but for post processing I would use Elastique pitch since it sounds insanely clean, but it has plugin delay
I had to use subtitles instead of just having them there so you don’t sound like jibberish, hope that answers the question at 5:37
8:18 "meow"
I always thought that super high could make some wacky ass noises. Basically contacting aliens is entirely possible we just haven't tried y'all 😂
5:25 : Synths invented on 1960
People in 1959:
My dog has been searching around the house looking at the ceiling for the past hour trying to find the ghost making these sounds. Thanks Nik. 😂
3:29, radio is ~4 MHz which is around B16, and also literally a different kind of matter tho
This man went so high his guitar gave up and went to heaven
The E6 tuning shredding just sounds like the intro to an 8 bit Kirby song ^^
Would also be really interesting to hear a song that combines both videos, going between both min and max tunings
7:10 sounds like a phone ringtone for some reason
Yeah 😅
Considering the fact that human ear can only hear frequencies between 20 Hz and 20000 Hz, it's actually funny that we all heard every note played, even after going above the 20 kHz
Once you started getting into the horrifically high tones I started getting PTSD from my childhood & dial-up internet 😂
Your guitar sounds like it’s desperately screaming and holding on for dear life
Most metal thing ever
5:45 sounded like a bag pipe lmfaoo
Gotta love how it literally started screaming in pain with a voice for the last ones.
Nik waking up at 3am inexplicably because of the demon he summoned through the astral plane wants revenge 🤣
Always love these kinds of videos, experiments in music are amazing to watch
3:56 can i play wonderwall on this tuning?
“Sounds just as bad as it normaly does”💀💀💀
6:05 That's just a horror game at this point.
No matter how high it goes, it still doesn't sound as annoying as the dentist tool.
That dissonance at A#5 legitimately sounded like your guitar was screaming in agony
My dog was laying on my lap and 7:24 legit made her perk up and look at me
Went from electric guitar to dial up internet, thank you for the journey
1:21 king james - buckethead intro
I'm a pretty new beginner on the guitar, starting with acoustic and all I can play's just some simple hymns right now, stuff like that. But these videos are actually helping me learn the actual music aspect of the guitar, if that makes sense. Thank you, bro! Sick vid
I feel like these higher frequencies can literally break glass and it sounds awesome
the frequency is like 8.3 times higher than humans can hear so maybe.
Metal meets absurdity in the midst of Nik's mental breakdown.
the high notes sounds kind of like a hearing test sounds.
So, human hearing caps out at ~20,000 hertz (and since we’re metalheads, safe to say we aren’t getting the full 20,000), which means everything past that is just the lower frequencies that also get produced, which is why it didn’t sound different, just quieter, because we can’t actually hear the full note (and chances are your audio system can’t play it. My earbuds max out at like 22,000, and they’re some good quality ones)
Those high notes are like when you get hit in the head really hard and you just get that ringing noise.
Bruh, the notes got so high that they started sounding like OG Gameboy Pokémon. The notes hurt themselves in confusion
You ever think of doing a higher pitched song? There's a video of Pete Cottrell where he played Metallica riffs but tuned up and they sounded pretty awesome.
The human ear can only hear tones up to 20,000Hz. And that’s like really young, pristine ears, not our ears that have been destroyed from years of thrash metal. Also, my dog hated this video.
My hearing is fine. My anxiety was through the roof. Even using a pitch shifter I still thought those strings were going to snap.
from alien communication through ghostly transmissions and summoning demons then onward to the screams of anguish of the damned and finally conversing Cthulhu and the Great Unspeakable Horrors. Glad my hearing is already screwed through long term headphone use
I actually have meniere's disease so have lost a huge chunk of my high end so i lost you before you decided to see how bad wonder wall sounded. So now im just watching your reaction to silence in the high notes. If i had my hearing aids in it would probably be an awful experience to be fair
Trust me, you don’t need your hearing aids. You heard enough poor child. I just wish my idiocy with animal deterrent flashbang grenades took more of my hearing so I didn’t have to listen to the bagpipe noises Nik eventually made.
1:12: Pain begins
The rest of the video: Pain Remains
i thought the same thing ma boi
@@cgabgoes Haha, yes! I knew that I couldn't be the only one. 🤘🏽
This is absolutely hilarious. Even better than the low tunings video. Some of those pterodactyl noises might go hard in Ikari tho
Not related but great pfp. There Is a Hell is an amazing record and imo BMTH got better when they released it although Sempiternal is one my favourite albums from them and one of my favourite albums of all time.
8:49 The alien that is held captive in my basement asking for some sustinance to sustain themself.
For some reason the early low frequencies reminded me of the Offspring. And some of those really high ones were insane.
I’m liking these high frequency sounds I’m a metal head but I love what’s happening
Riveting content as always Nik. Now I’m deaf though, you and your channel are going to be hearing from my lawyers soon.
Fuckin' Scotty be out here hollerin' "There be whales here, Captain!" while he's looking through some transparent aluminum after Nik hit that E>13 high note...
This was actually really entertaining to see you just fucking around with stuff that shouldn't be done. It's insane that the camera can't even pick up the 15Khz+ frequencies correctly. I think you might've unlocked a gate somewhere with the 168Khz
0:15 oh trust me, people definitely ask how high can one go
Some of the best Nik videos are the most terrible ideas I love it when we have goofy Nik videos 😂
I remember Dave Mustaine saying that if he were going to use a 7-string guitar, the additional string would be higher, not lower.
That said, everything over about 8kHz sounded screwy through whatever youtube did + my headphones + what a long history of loud music have done to my ears.
Even so, somewhere north of 20kHz, all of my earwax melted and dribbled out. I'm favoriting this video to save on Q-Tips in the future.
I'm grateful to have the hearing I do, I have slight hearing loss but the main thing is that some frequencies cut out, some people's voices are hard to hear, especially with background noise.
1:33 song name???
did u find out?
This video is a goldmine for sci-fi sound effects
tinnitus: the experiment
I have unlocked a new form of hearing damage from this 😂
Would be cool to see this done analog. Actually get some really thick and really thin strings and see how high and how low you can get a guitar to actually play without any pitch shifting. Then of course you can throw a wammy pedal on it just to annoy the cat.
7:08 that sounded like pokemon
I learnt something from this.
Low = deamons
High = ghosts
8:30 The last one sounds a bit like a Gojira scrape.
The part at 7:10 was legit sick
06:45
All the dogs in a 15 mile radius are going absolutely insane
I have several cats. They were watching the video. They stood still at times. I think you sent them some kind of message.
Let's all acknowledge what this man created. Everyone, Nik gave us AliEN metal. It's fascinating, very disturbing, ???, And funny metal. Nik make a song with this creation now! Lol
There’s a band that tunes up but only a semitone called Vektor, they’re a space themed progressive thrash
Bands that almost entirely play open strings or the low end of the neck:
“HUH WHERE IS THAT COMING FROM!?”
What I love about this is that I now know the exact pitch of my tinnitus.
Loved how it went from high to house hold appliance’s noises
I'm glad i chose to watch this without headphones
You actually cured my hearing after hearing a 3.5 hour Tswift show. So I thank you sir
Sounds like a ghost got me 😂 love your new format of content! Can't wait for the next upload - quality stuff 🙏😍
JOKE'S ON YOU I'VE GOT MILD TINNITUS.