Weirdly enough, I finally heard Yanny once the pitch was at its lowest. Really awesome video! Looking forward to more cool stuff like this on your channel!
I actually heard Yanny more when the pitch was lower and Laurel higher in pitch. Although, granted, in the lower segment I actually hear both laurel and yanny, just a little bit clearer yanny. My brain hurts now... lmao
I know the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody but I didnt hear them in the clip. I didnt hear the piano talking until I read the cqptions so I get the priming thing. Hmmm
I love Shepard Tones. Especially when there's a rising and falling tone at the same time, which others describe as being too unsettling to listen to for any time. I find them somewhat soothing.
I heard Laurel at all frequencies until the very low which is when I heard the Gary sound. So, I'm middle aged and have gone to many concerts, so my higher frequency range is probably garbage.
Whenever Beth posts stuff like this, it just makes me love her and her channel even more! Also, props for featuring a Brazilian youtuber! As a Brazilian myself, it's nice to see my country getting some love. Best of all to ya Beth! Amazing work!
Thanks a lot Beth for the fun, interesting & amazing video... It was worth it... & I can't stop to watch your beautiful smile... Love you❤❤❤ & take care...
Thank you for sharing, Beth! No matter what frequency or pitch, I can only hear Laurel. And also 'ba' dominates my hearing instead of 'fa', I could only hear about 2 - 3 fa(s) in passing.
Laurel is in the lower frequencies and Yanny is in the higher frequencies. I was able to hear both first time I heard it. It's about time someone else figured it out. :D
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Laurel still dominates my hearing no matter what frequency and pitch. On the 'ba' and 'fa' exercise, when I close my eyes, I could only hear 'ba' all the way.
I first discovered the Laurel clip before a band rehearsal, and heard Laurel. To test if it was frequency, we played a bit without any ear protection (super smart, I know) then listened to the same clip and I heard Yanny. So...that's what damage live music will do.
Another audio illusion is at the end of Mr. Blue Sky by ELO. If you ask people what it's saying most people will say "Mr blue sky" while actually it says "Please turn me over" since it was the last song on that side of the Vinyl.
I have a friend who, the first time we met, told me she was living in Boulder (CO) , but as I'm french, I heard Bordeaux, which led to a short confusing conversation ! And thank you for talking about Risset, his work seems very interesting !
"The Piano has been talking, not me" (Tom Waits). Thanks for explaining the "pattern-seeking" brain's role in the auditory world. It's much clearer how we visually mistake things for human forms or faces when information is incomplete and the brain fills in the gaps. It's really interesting to see what makes a sound similar enough to a human voice to be mistaken for one. It reminds me of a TED talk by Michael Shermer about "why people believe weird things", in which he delivers a lot of examples of visual and auditory illusions, including the famous satanic backwards-message in Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. I didn't understand a word until the words were shown. It would be really interesting to see this visualized in the way you show here, and compare it to someone actually singing it normally, i.e. forwards. I suspect that it's not the voice alone but the whole array of instruments that bring the harmonics together in just the right way. Unfortunately, Michael got too hung up ridiculing the people who over-interpret such things to actually clarify the "why" in his title.
Now I understand when you increase the pitch, I could still hear Laurel in the man's voice but slowly a second voice, robotic-like started to appear, saying Yanny. About my gear: AKG K240 MKII plugged directly into my PC, with no DAC or stuff like that. I'm 24 years old, too. You're really into that stuff, huh? I could see in your eyes your excitement, like, way more excited than your usual, it's like you were talking about the coolest thing in the world and I think it is for you. It's nice to see this kind of passion
This kind of videos are extremely interesting, plus you have an adorable and cristal clear accent. They are very gripping and novelty. Besides, high quality content. I congratulate You, Beth!
Might not be perfectly analagous, but I am a percussionist and am fascinated by implied and actual metric modulation and polyrythms. Often when hearing traditional African music I shift between hearing it in different meters.
So, the initial priming example (color mismatch) didn't work for me. But I'm glad you replayed the talking piano, cause that did help me see priming. The first time you played the piano, I didn't hear it at all. So I listened to it again with my eyes closed and could kind of hear it. But when you played it again at the end I clearly heard the words!
Wonderful as usual. You should now treat yourself to Geoff Castaluccis cover of high and dry. Solo vocal with piano and just amazingly done with a voice that does amazing things.
Hi Beth! This video was amazing! I love this channel! What I just watched blew my mind! Wow! I am going to pay attention to some stuff that I hear from now on! Great video!
Like many others I hear Laurel for most of the clip. I only heard Yanny when it was at the lowest frequency. That being said, I have always been super sensitive to high frequencies like when people’s hearing aid batteries are running low. I also used to hear the old tvs and monitors when they were on but not having a signal. It registered in the back of my head right where it meets my neck and is very uncomfortable. I am 44.
Is it possible that it has to do with the pitches your ears pick up? The lower pitches are obviously "laurel", but if you listen closely, the higher pitches seem to say "yanni", "Gary", or some other word. Very interesting. You got me on the "ba" part. Good job. Edit: sorry, I didn't finish the video before I made my comment. You actually addressed this.
My wife damaged her right ear drum while scuba diving years ago. She still has diminished hearing in that ear today. She has said how much harder it is to understand people now that masks are in use. She didn't realize how much she was getting from essentially lip reading until that was taken away.
I heard "bah" both times right away. Also I heard Laurel all the time except when you reached the lowest pitch, then I think I heard a Yanny. At the highest pitch it sounded like Lolly
There is a bird that I hear at work that always sounds like its saying someone's name, usually 'Gary' or 'Eric'. I only heard 'yanny' in the far left 20% of the slide.
Interesting... I believe that I've lost some of my higher frequency hearing due to too much exposure to loud noise (specifically sitting behind a drum kit) in my teens and early twenties. I only heard Laurel on the pitch removal and "Laurel" until the pitch shifted to the lower range and then I heard "Yeary"
So today I learned I have a disconnect between priming and actual hearing. When you were saying Fa Fa Fa but playing the Ba Ba Ba clip I was hearing one with my eyes and the other with my ears and it was confusing for a moment. The talking piano I heard nothing, and in the Bohemian Rhapsody part it just sounded like a John Medesky cover. Now, what can I do with this information...
Can you please check out Raine Maida lead singer of Our Lady Peace his range is amazing and do not think you have looked or listened to his voice before. Thank you!
Laurel vs Yanny - first time I played it in this video, I heard Yanny, then went back, actively listened for Laurel and heard that, but then could not "switch" back to Yanny...
I didn't expect that kind of technical video about sound on your channel! Great job, Beth! :-) If you're interested to hear the "talking piano" trick applied to different instruments throughout an album based on the sound of talking voices by a great canadian guitarist and composer René Lussier, here's the Wiki page : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_tr%C3%A9sor_de_la_langue and here's the whole album : ruclips.net/video/1M6AS-gvtOc/видео.html (by the way, thank you so much for speaking about Jean-Claude Risset :-)
I thought a professor said that you should hear yanny if you have good hearing. The original clip was someone saying Laurel but the 'controversial' clip used online was pitched up making Yanny the correct answer.
Thanks for this, very interesting and informative. BTW, I loved that you have the little roar say Laurel instead of roar at the beginning of the video. Awesome sauce right there! Bi gu math! ~Be Blessed!
Hi, it's funny. I'm French, I understand English and speak it fluently. I always hear "Laurel", even in the highest frequency. But in the lowest ones I hear "Liri".. 🤣🤣
The pitch slider during 5:35 is what made it flip between yanny and laurel. Before that all I could hear was yanny. I think my ears are more sensitive to higher frequencies?
The best auditory tension I ever experienced was in the movie 127 Hours. The sounds and engineering made the pivotal moment intense and psychologically jarring. It made me physically uncomfortable.
Now I have a scientific explanation why I find modern music so unnerving. It also explains that when I sit next to a river and it starts to mumble, it doesn't actually tell me anything supernaturally profound, but what what I'm primed to hear, a sort of amplifier of my own thoughts. However that Doppler-effect of a car passing by would be a descending tone, even if it's going backwards. The most fantastic Doppler-effect I ever heard occurred when passing by the bagpiper on George Street at a decent pace on a bicycle.
You get similar illusions when someone "adapt" Korean songs to Italian language: after you read captions you actually hear Italian words (of course, if you're Italian)
Very interesting content that held my attention. It was as good as hearing you react to my favorite artist singing my favorite song. I hope that you can find some more content to make another educational video like this one. Thank you for your hard work. rawr!
Weirdly enough, I finally heard Yanny once the pitch was at its lowest. Really awesome video! Looking forward to more cool stuff like this on your channel!
when it went high I heard Yaurel, when it went low I heard a Gary or two
Yeah, that's how it was for me too. I finally heard Yanny at about the lowest three.
Yeah, I heard laurel through all the high, almost yanny near the bottom, and geary at the lowest.
Same here. When it was higher it was Laurel, but when it was lower it was Yanny. Good stuff!
Yeah me too
I can hear Laurel whatever pitch it was played at lol
Funny, for me it was Yanny on whatever pitch at 5:21. In the original clip I am also a Yanny.
I've never once heard Yanny
I actually heard Yanny more when the pitch was lower and Laurel higher in pitch. Although, granted, in the lower segment I actually hear both laurel and yanny, just a little bit clearer yanny.
My brain hurts now... lmao
Yup! Laurel every time!
How can someone possibly hear "yanni"?
I know the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody but I didnt hear them in the clip. I didnt hear the piano talking until I read the cqptions so I get the priming thing. Hmmm
I love Shepard Tones. Especially when there's a rising and falling tone at the same time, which others describe as being too unsettling to listen to for any time. I find them somewhat soothing.
"VSAUCE! Beth here.
Is it Laurel or is it Yanny?"
Love the new educational/entertainment content format!
I heard Laurel at all frequencies until the very low which is when I heard the Gary sound. So, I'm middle aged and have gone to many concerts, so my higher frequency range is probably garbage.
Loving these educational, nerdy episodes. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
Whenever Beth posts stuff like this, it just makes me love her and her channel even more! Also, props for featuring a Brazilian youtuber! As a Brazilian myself, it's nice to see my country getting some love.
Best of all to ya Beth! Amazing work!
This explains a lot. The reason two people disagree on what was said in any given situation. Thanks for this Beth.
I loved this video!
Regards
Vinheteiro
Thank you!
Vinheteiro assistindo Beth Roars? Quero esse crossover um dia
Wow...Lord vin.....
I love both of you
@@manocustaff4809 hahaha tambem quero!
Thanks a lot Beth for the fun, interesting & amazing video... It was worth it... & I can't stop to watch your beautiful smile... Love you❤❤❤ & take care...
Thank you for sharing, Beth! No matter what frequency or pitch, I can only hear Laurel. And also 'ba' dominates my hearing instead of 'fa', I could only hear about 2 - 3 fa(s) in passing.
Why do I find the beth roars logo speaking laurel the funniest event of today??? XP
The Ba/Fa test worked for me. But the laurel audio never changes.
Awesome and educational. More like this, please!
Laurel is in the lower frequencies and Yanny is in the higher frequencies. I was able to hear both first time I heard it. It's about time someone else figured it out. :D
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Laurel still dominates my hearing no matter what frequency and pitch. On the 'ba' and 'fa' exercise, when I close my eyes, I could only hear 'ba' all the way.
"Mcgurk" sounds like something I'd call a friend to take the piss.
I first discovered the Laurel clip before a band rehearsal, and heard Laurel. To test if it was frequency, we played a bit without any ear protection (super smart, I know) then listened to the same clip and I heard Yanny. So...that's what damage live music will do.
Another audio illusion is at the end of Mr. Blue Sky by ELO. If you ask people what it's saying most people will say "Mr blue sky" while actually it says "Please turn me over" since it was the last song on that side of the Vinyl.
I have a friend who, the first time we met, told me she was living in Boulder (CO) , but as I'm french, I heard Bordeaux, which led to a short confusing conversation !
And thank you for talking about Risset, his work seems very interesting !
Such an interesting video. Really well explained and lots of work went into it. I was finally able to hear Laurel during that clip. Thanks :)
"The Piano has been talking, not me" (Tom Waits).
Thanks for explaining the "pattern-seeking" brain's role in the auditory world. It's much clearer how we visually mistake things for human forms or faces when information is incomplete and the brain fills in the gaps. It's really interesting to see what makes a sound similar enough to a human voice to be mistaken for one.
It reminds me of a TED talk by Michael Shermer about "why people believe weird things", in which he delivers a lot of examples of visual and auditory illusions, including the famous satanic backwards-message in Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. I didn't understand a word until the words were shown. It would be really interesting to see this visualized in the way you show here, and compare it to someone actually singing it normally, i.e. forwards. I suspect that it's not the voice alone but the whole array of instruments that bring the harmonics together in just the right way. Unfortunately, Michael got too hung up ridiculing the people who over-interpret such things to actually clarify the "why" in his title.
Now I understand when you increase the pitch, I could still hear Laurel in the man's voice but slowly a second voice, robotic-like started to appear, saying Yanny. About my gear: AKG K240 MKII plugged directly into my PC, with no DAC or stuff like that. I'm 24 years old, too.
You're really into that stuff, huh? I could see in your eyes your excitement, like, way more excited than your usual, it's like you were talking about the coolest thing in the world and I think it is for you. It's nice to see this kind of passion
5:16 i heard "laurel/yaurel" in the higher pitch and "yanny" in the lower D: in the middle i heard both of them at the same time plus "yaurel" lmao
This kind of videos are extremely interesting, plus you have an adorable and cristal clear accent. They are very gripping and novelty. Besides, high quality content. I congratulate You, Beth!
Might not be perfectly analagous, but I am a percussionist and am fascinated by implied and actual metric modulation and polyrythms. Often when hearing traditional African music I shift between hearing it in different meters.
So, the initial priming example (color mismatch) didn't work for me. But I'm glad you replayed the talking piano, cause that did help me see priming. The first time you played the piano, I didn't hear it at all. So I listened to it again with my eyes closed and could kind of hear it. But when you played it again at the end I clearly heard the words!
5:45 strangely I hear something likely "yally" here...
Have to try with my headphones tomorrow
What did you he hear with headphones?
I heard "Jelly" 🤣
Wonderful as usual. You should now treat yourself to Geoff Castaluccis cover of high and dry. Solo vocal with piano and just amazingly done with a voice that does amazing things.
I love the scientific explanations of what we are hearing.
Hi Beth! This video was amazing! I love this channel! What I just watched blew my mind! Wow! I am going to pay attention to some stuff that I hear from now on! Great video!
Like many others I hear Laurel for most of the clip. I only heard Yanny when it was at the lowest frequency. That being said, I have always been super sensitive to high frequencies like when people’s hearing aid batteries are running low. I also used to hear the old tvs and monitors when they were on but not having a signal. It registered in the back of my head right where it meets my neck and is very uncomfortable. I am 44.
Haha, I heard Laurel the first time, then Laurel and Geery when changing the frequency.
Is it possible that it has to do with the pitches your ears pick up?
The lower pitches are obviously "laurel", but if you listen closely, the higher pitches seem to say "yanni", "Gary", or some other word.
Very interesting.
You got me on the "ba" part. Good job.
Edit: sorry, I didn't finish the video before I made my comment. You actually addressed this.
My wife damaged her right ear drum while scuba diving years ago. She still has diminished hearing in that ear today. She has said how much harder it is to understand people now that masks are in use. She didn't realize how much she was getting from essentially lip reading until that was taken away.
All Laurel, until at 5:10 I heard "Yeermy". At about 5:40 I started hearing "Yammy". Right before that, I heard both at once 2 or 3 times.
You are fine. Good luck with your channel. I love your reaction/analysis to metal music.
Thanks. I can hear both now. 😄
Okay now you're tripping me out. This just followed you're live chat today and whoah... I've never looked into any of this.
I believe there's a great example of The Shepherd Tone effect at the very end of Pink Floyd studio version of "Echoes" - check it out.
Holy crap...I never knew of the McGurk affect...very interesting
I hear sometimes Yanny, sometimes Laurel (but distorted) and sometimes "Yarry". It seeems there is plenty of variety here.
Hello Beth cool video 👍🌟⭐⭐⭐👌🙏🎄
Hi! Could you do a vocal coach reacts on Dire Straits or Mark Knopfler in general? Thanks, cheers from Italy!
I heard Laurel the whole time until it was at its lowest. Then I heard yeary. But this is on cheap bluetooth earbuds
The ascending sound was used by The beatles on the song "A Day in the Life" if i'm not mistaken.
nevercouldbeanyotherway
I heard Yanny at the start. I here both when the pitch's are changed. It's so weird and messes with my brain. 🙂🙂
All pitches and speeds are 'yanny'. Facts! 😁
Absolutely fascinating!
I heard "bah" both times right away. Also I heard Laurel all the time except when you reached the lowest pitch, then I think I heard a Yanny. At the highest pitch it sounded like Lolly
Wow that was very interesting ,I really enjoyed it and I wouldn't mind hearing more about this sort of topic. Thank you Beth great video
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Woow when at first I heard Yanny, as the pitch got higher I heard Laurel and as it went down I heard Yanny again
There is a bird that I hear at work that always sounds like its saying someone's name, usually 'Gary' or 'Eric'.
I only heard 'yanny' in the far left 20% of the slide.
Mind Blown 🤯 Tremendous job 👏
Interesting...
I believe that I've lost some of my higher frequency hearing due to too much exposure to loud noise (specifically sitting behind a drum kit) in my teens and early twenties.
I only heard Laurel on the pitch removal and "Laurel" until the pitch shifted to the lower range and then I heard "Yeary"
Fantastic video!! Thank you!!!
Very interesting. Thank you for the info.
This is amazing. Great video! :)
So today I learned I have a disconnect between priming and actual hearing.
When you were saying Fa Fa Fa but playing the Ba Ba Ba clip I was hearing one with my eyes and the other with my ears and it was confusing for a moment.
The talking piano I heard nothing, and in the Bohemian Rhapsody part it just sounded like a John Medesky cover.
Now, what can I do with this information...
Laurel
I love this video
They used this piano affect in IT (original Tellie movie)
ALL i hear is Laurel. Ecen when the pitches are changed. I even tried reading the other word first, and still heard laurel.
I heard laurel when high and yanny when low but normally only hear laurel
That was fun and informative! Well done!👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
So cool. The Big Turk McGurk effect.
Yeah... thanks for the early Halloween scare!! Yikes!
Ok now you name Nolan's movies? That's why you're my favorite.
Usually hear Laurel, but at 5:40 - 5:42 hear Yarry
Try to read colors out loud.
Me a non native English speaker: Call me when you have a real challenge
Try it with the names of the colors written in your native language.
I hear both through the entire pitch at 5:23. Laurel is the dominant sound with Yanni sounding like a whisper behind it. It’s strange.
Can you please check out Raine Maida lead singer of Our Lady Peace his range is amazing and do not think you have looked or listened to his voice before. Thank you!
Talk nerdy to me 😜 really cool video!!!
Laurel vs Yanny - first time I played it in this video, I heard Yanny, then went back, actively listened for Laurel and heard that, but then could not "switch" back to Yanny...
Weird. I heard "Yanny" on what you called the normal clip, but when the pitch went up, I heard "Laurel" and when the pitch went down, I heard "Yanny."
I hear a mix an can hear laurel when pitched up but hear yelly when pitched down
I didn't expect that kind of technical video about sound on your channel! Great job, Beth! :-)
If you're interested to hear the "talking piano" trick applied to different instruments throughout an album based on the sound of talking voices by a great canadian guitarist and composer René Lussier, here's the Wiki page : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_tr%C3%A9sor_de_la_langue
and here's the whole album : ruclips.net/video/1M6AS-gvtOc/видео.html
(by the way, thank you so much for speaking about Jean-Claude Risset :-)
This was such a neat video 😁
I thought a professor said that you should hear yanny if you have good hearing. The original clip was someone saying Laurel but the 'controversial' clip used online was pitched up making Yanny the correct answer.
5:08 I still hear laurel
Thanks for this, very interesting and informative. BTW, I loved that you have the little roar say Laurel instead of roar at the beginning of the video. Awesome sauce right there! Bi gu math! ~Be Blessed!
Hi, it's funny. I'm French, I understand English and speak it fluently. I always hear "Laurel", even in the highest frequency. But in the lowest ones I hear "Liri".. 🤣🤣
Lord Vinheteiro from 🇧🇷 10:15 as me, great video! I love your voice!!
The pitch slider during 5:35 is what made it flip between yanny and laurel. Before that all I could hear was yanny. I think my ears are more sensitive to higher frequencies?
That was my exact experience, too.
Please react to inutilismo - "2020 em uma música". That's a Brazilian guy singing and playing some 2020 hits perfectly, like a native English speaker.
This ALSO may explain why people misunderstand each other.
5:20 min. i heard laurel forward play, yanni in backward play
Пледик бы и какао с молочком, стекляная стена, камин ,снежок и белки за окном)
Risset just drove during rush hour traffic, being overtaken a thousand times with that multi-doppler effect... For sure :D
Professor Beth just got a ton of ignorance out of me!
Jajajajajaja morí en la intro usual "Laurel"
Beth 😍 😍 😍 😍
Great video!!!
What a great video! Thanks!
The best auditory tension I ever experienced was in the movie 127 Hours. The sounds and engineering made the pivotal moment intense and psychologically jarring. It made me physically uncomfortable.
Now I have a scientific explanation why I find modern music so unnerving.
It also explains that when I sit next to a river and it starts to mumble, it doesn't actually tell me anything supernaturally profound, but what what I'm primed to hear, a sort of amplifier of my own thoughts.
However that Doppler-effect of a car passing by would be a descending tone, even if it's going backwards. The most fantastic Doppler-effect I ever heard occurred when passing by the bagpiper on George Street at a decent pace on a bicycle.
Well, great... Now I hear Yelly.
You get similar illusions when someone "adapt" Korean songs to Italian language: after you read captions you actually hear Italian words (of course, if you're Italian)
Very interesting content that held my attention. It was as good as hearing you react to my favorite artist singing my favorite song. I hope that you can find some more content to make another educational video like this one. Thank you for your hard work. rawr!
I have lots of ideas. :) Check out my Beth Chats playlist for more educational videos: ruclips.net/p/PL9cGSbtFombSa49bJ0nxQhwx5tHnj9sP_