Sound color (timbre) - what it is and what it depends on?
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Nyquist Team
The attribute that allows distinguishing between sounds of the same pitch and volume but coming from different sound sources. Timbre depends on the sound spectrum, meaning the content of the harmonic frequencies, their quantity and intensity, as well as their synchronicity, the shape of the sound envelope, the shape, and the rise time of the sound.
To better imagine what the color of sound really is, one can invoke its analogy to the color perceived by sight.
To better imagine what the color of sound really is, one can invoke its analogy to the color perceived by sight. Just as vision perceives colors based on the spectral composition of light, the color of sound also depends on the proportions of individual frequencies in the spectrum of the acoustic signal. The color of sound largely determines the subjective perception of a given sound. The human ear distinguishes the color of sound based on the ratio of the amplitude of the fundamental tone to the harmonic tones. However, there is some difficulty in naming a particular color of sound. Nevertheless, there are a few concepts that serve this purpose. For example, a bright color refers to a sound characterized by a high content of components with high frequencies, while a dark color refers to a sound that has few of the aforementioned components in its spectrum.
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