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
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
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
A company should send you a pack of strings that can handle high tunings and you should just tune them as high as they can go until they eventually break
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...
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.
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 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.
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.
I wonder if what we’re hearing at ridiculously high frequencies are notes of the harmonic series of the intended note rather than the actual note. Especially at 4:42 or 5:25 since it changes to different pitches even though Nick is only fretting one note
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
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.
So on the highest note, we went from mandragora squealing to 56k router trying to connect to death screams from hell to baby alien trying to talk. Noice.
*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 🙏
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
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
This is like an elementary school hearing test. "Raise your hand when you hear the tone"
i thought the same thing
Same
"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 😂
and for them heavy breakdowns need to go even higher
If dimebag Darrel had this tho
The pinch harmonics would be insane
He did 😅
a LoNg TiMe AgO i NeVer KnEw MysElF
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
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
That’s basically c# standard
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
My body is physically rejecting these sounds
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 💀
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.
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.
So that was an interesting journey from ukulele metal to alien ukulele metal in 9 minutes.
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.
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?
The notes went so high they became indistinguishable from my tinnitus
my ears bleed.
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
Guitarists hate this one simple trick, but they can't stop you.
Imagine a pinch harmonic on the highest note
7:10 sounds like a phone ringtone for some reason
Yeah 😅
We so need song made of lowest and highest possible tunings
Forget chug chug bree, we need wub wub *alien communication*
0:12 voice crack💀
Lol
this video hertz to listen to
good one
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!
Sorry Creed we can not take you any higher then this
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. 😂
Nik waking up at 3am inexplicably because of the demon he summoned through the astral plane wants revenge 🤣
never thought i’d see the day when nik goes higher
bro caught radio station УВБ 76 on 12544 Hz☠
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 😂
the high notes sounds kind of like a hearing test sounds.
Nik: "How much do I hate myself"
Me: " how much do I hate myself to watch this on full volume"
6:05 That's just a horror game at this point.
Once you started getting into the horrifically high tones I started getting PTSD from my childhood & dial-up internet 😂
1:03 Hell Yeah
do you know if that’s a certain song hes playing?
@@guitarboyy thats what im wondering
My dog was laying on my lap and 7:24 legit made her perk up and look at me
8:18 "meow"
3:29, radio is ~4 MHz which is around B16, and also literally a different kind of matter tho
No matter how high it goes, it still doesn't sound as annoying as the dentist tool.
3:56 can i play wonderwall on this tuning?
“Sounds just as bad as it normaly does”💀💀💀
Went from electric guitar to dial up internet, thank you for the journey
It went from 🔥🔥 to 🐿️ to 👽 real quick
This man went so high his guitar gave up and went to heaven
Nik: "How much has you hearing been destroyed"
Me: Yes.
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
Bruh, the notes got so high that they started sounding like OG Gameboy Pokémon. The notes hurt themselves in confusion
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.
5:25 : Synths invented on 1960
People in 1959:
5:45 sounded like a bag pipe lmfaoo
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
Those high notes are like when you get hit in the head really hard and you just get that ringing noise.
that 15khz dissonant kinda sounds like screaming, gotta layer that in a breakdown with actual screams lol
8:53 alien speech recorded for the first time
What I love about this is that I now know the exact pitch of my tinnitus.
That dissonance at A#5 legitimately sounded like your guitar was screaming in agony
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
Gotta love how it literally started screaming in pain with a voice for the last ones.
Always love these kinds of videos, experiments in music are amazing to watch
I have unlocked a new form of hearing damage from this 😂
A company should send you a pack of strings that can handle high tunings and you should just tune them as high as they can go until they eventually break
Garry Goodman/Octave4Plus would be his best bet. They sell strings as thin as .0059”; or maybe it was .0056”.
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...
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.
Dude this fucked up my headphones. Sounds like I’m at the bottom of a swimming pool.
1:21 king james - buckethead intro
Metal meets absurdity in the midst of Nik's mental breakdown.
My hearing is fine. My anxiety was through the roof. Even using a pitch shifter I still thought those strings were going to snap.
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
Riveting content as always Nik. Now I’m deaf though, you and your channel are going to be hearing from my lawyers soon.
I learnt something from this.
Low = deamons
High = ghosts
For some reason the early low frequencies reminded me of the Offspring. And some of those really high ones were insane.
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 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.
06:45
All the dogs in a 15 mile radius are going absolutely insane
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.
4:41 my guy made a minecraft cave noise
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.
2:30 bro that's literally the sound of your microwave 💀
0:15 oh trust me, people definitely ask how high can one go
“how high we can go?”
*takes out his marijuana from his pocket, and starts to smoke it*
1:33 song name???
did u find out?
Hey the dogs are panicking
I wonder if what we’re hearing at ridiculously high frequencies are notes of the harmonic series of the intended note rather than the actual note. Especially at 4:42 or 5:25 since it changes to different pitches even though Nick is only fretting one note
I think that could be part of it, though the plug-in he’s using for pitch shifting Has a natural graininess when pushed to extremes
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
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.
8:49 The alien that is held captive in my basement asking for some sustinance to sustain themself.
Your guitar sounds like it’s desperately screaming and holding on for dear life
Most metal thing ever
My eardrums have disintegrated
Cannibal corpse in 30 seconds video? Preferably kill era
E13 sounds like a lightsaber being swung around.
Bands that almost entirely play open strings or the low end of the neck:
“HUH WHERE IS THAT COMING FROM!?”
So on the highest note, we went from mandragora squealing to 56k router trying to connect to death screams from hell to baby alien trying to talk. Noice.
Meanwhile, my 12-52 Ernie Ball strings breaks in standard tuning 😭🙏
Loved how it went from high to house hold appliance’s noises
Some of the best Nik videos are the most terrible ideas I love it when we have goofy Nik videos 😂