How can I distort music by moving toward/away from the source?

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Q. I am looking to make a sound/sculpture for my Fine Art degree. It will be a human sized black monolith. Inside the structure I want a speaker system playing a deep bass ambient track, I want this track to be affected in terms of reverb or pitch as viewers move toward or away from the monolith. I have no idea how this could be done... Any help would be great!

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Let me clarify one thing. The term "distortion" in the audio world has a whole different meaning than any other definition of the word. Audio distortion is a bad thing. In order to distort a musical signal one must overdrive the signal into clipping. For example, when a person is speaking into a microphone and then gets too close to the speakers or has the main volume up too high to the point where the mic picks up the sound from the speakers. That ear-splitting high pitch squeal you here then is the signal being clipped into distortion. Not good at all for the speakers especially the high frequency driver/s. Also, low frequencies(roughly below 100Hz) are omnidirectional. So if you just had a speaker playing a deep ambience track, the pitch would not be affected by a viewer moving toward or away from the monolith. The bass would actually be more pronounced at the distance where any given low frequency wave completes one cycle. In other words, the lower the bass note, the further one has to be. But it wouldn't change the pitch. The bass would just sound louder at a certain distance.

Is investing in a record player and a record collection worth it?

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I'm a huge music person, and I have recently beome infatuated with the comeback of record players, especially since all my favorite bands are putting out their music on vinyl now. I have invested a lot in my digital music collection over the last few years and I have really nice, expensive speaker systems for my iPod and everything. But I REALLY want to start a record collection for some unfathomable reason.

I'm going to be a freshmen in college next year so I really have to get smart with my money and my concern is that I'll spend a ton of money on records and then decide to go back to digital.

The record player that my dad wants to buy me as a Christmas gift can convert records into MP3s so I was hoping I could have the best of both vinyl and digital music worlds.

Can you tell me if there is such a big difference between sound quality in records vs. iPod/ other digital music devices that I should spend this money?

I'm thinking of just having the record player and a couple vinyl albums that my dad wants to buy me for Christmas and then seeing if I like it enough to continue a collection, but I'm trying to decide if it's worth it now so I can get something else for Christmas.

I'm probably overthinking this but it's the whole need vs. want factor. I want to try this out because I'm really taken with it, yet I have litterally spent thousands of dollars on iPods and speakers and music from iTunes building up my music collection. And the songs from iTunes are way cheaper than the vinyl.

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I have been pulled back into older technology by nostalgia and such.

But it has never been worth it.

Get a few records, and let it go at that.

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