What is it about women?

[rhgwynn]

They can always seem to hear things - little subtleties and nuances - that us men usually gloss over. Another guy on here said he had a good 'bad pickup' detector. It's called a wife! LOL! So what is it?? Maybe it's biology? Similar to the way they respond to the high frequencies of a crying baby? What do you think??

-Rob

[David Schwab]

Men and women do have different brains, and their hearing and vision is different too. This is also true between individuals.

But i can hear things my ex wife couldn't hear when it came to music, until I pointed it out to her. She had good ears for a non musician. You have to learn to discriminate certain sounds. If you talk to non musicians, they often don't know which instruments make which sounds on a recording. But that's just a matter of familiarity.

[Marko Ursin]

They can always seem to hear things - little subtleties and nuances - that us men usually gloss over. Another guy on here said he had a good 'bad pickup' detector. It's called a wife! LOL! So what is it?? Maybe it's biology? Similar to the way they respond to the high frequencies of a crying baby? What do you think??

-Rob

Do you mean that when you in your weak moments say that something is even slightly possible women remember it until they die and you can be sure that when you least expect you're told that you promised to do whatever you don't remember you said? I'd say yes, women really do hear different things we men do.

[Mark Hammer]

As I understand it, age-related hearing loss tends to be greater in men than in women...unless he works in an office and she works in a garment factory or an an assembly line.

Apart from that, however, there are experiential aspects that David refers to. My wife and I had a thing going years ago where I'd put her on the spot when a song came on the car radio: "Telecaster or Strat?". Umm, I don't think Frank Falbo is going to be turning to her anytime soon to work the silver-wire coil production line and spot the substandard pickups.

[David Schwab]

Do you mean that when you in your weak moments say that something is even slightly possible women remember it until they die and you can be sure that when you least expect you're told that you promised to do whatever you don't remember you said? I'd say yes, women really do hear different things we men do.

They also relate all things to each other! So if you forget to do one thing, they will list a whole bunch of other things!

In my experience I find that their hearing is heavily filtered to their own interests. I used to tell my ex that I was going to start recording what she said so that when she swore she never said a certain thing I would have proof! So that memory is one sided at best.

[David Schwab]

My wife and I had a thing going years ago where I'd put her on the spot when a song came on the car radio: "Telecaster or Strat?".

There are a lot of Tele songs no would would expect was a Tele, like Whole Lotta Love, or the solo to Stairway to Heaven, or a lot of the lead work on Down on the Upside by Soundgardern. So it's hard to tell from recordings. It can be anything.

I remember when my my ex learned what a Clavinet was, she used to like to point it out to me when she heard one. She has told me that she listens to music in a very different way then before we met. Now she listens to the instruments and what they are doing.

[soundguruman]

They can always seem to hear things - little subtleties and nuances - that us men usually gloss over. Another guy on here said he had a good 'bad pickup' detector. It's called a wife! LOL! So what is it?? Maybe it's biology? Similar to the way they respond to the high frequencies of a crying baby? What do you think??

-Rob

It is well documented that women can see differences in colors that men cannot see.
Also, I notice they can hear high frequency distortion better too.
And therefore, appreciate better capacitors more than men.

[Mark Hammer]

Actually it is also documented that women's perceptual sensitivity and acuity tends to fluctuate with the menstrual cycle (i.e., when they have one; some of us are long past that), Specifically, it tends to increase in many areas just a few days before ovulation. On average, guys also smell better to women around then too. I won't describe it as women getting more desirous as much as menfolk becoming a little more bearable. If you can put up with guys enough to be around them immediately prior to peak fertility, the odds of the species doing what it needs to do to make more of the species increase a bit. Of course you have to be willing to turn off the game....for just a bit.

[Mike Sulzer]

I think that this discussion is nonsense.

[eschertron]

What? The part about turning off the game for a bit?

[big_teee]

I think that this discussion is nonsense.

I agree, can we perhaps discuss, "Pickups"?

[rhgwynn]

I agree, can we perhaps discuss, "Pickups"?

I was just having a little fun, referencing something interesting. No need for it to turn into anything sexist.

My girlfriend definitely could hear the difference between the old ceramics and the new alnicos I wound up. She really likes listening to me play a lot more now. She said the sound is much more rich, vibrant, and just overall they sound great. I am going to have to start taking more notes and making recordings so I can go back, and listen to the different ones I make and compare differences. Time to get a new composition book!

-Rob

[big_teee]

I was just having a little fun, referencing something interesting. No need for it to turn into anything sexist.

My girlfriend definitely could hear the difference between the old ceramics and the new alnicos I wound up. She really likes listening to me play a lot more now. She said the sound is much more rich, vibrant, and just overall they sound great. I am going to have to start taking more notes and making recordings so I can go back, and listen to the different ones I make and compare differences. Time to get a new composition book!

-Rob

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[jonson]

Remember GOD took one of Adam's ribs and made a loudspeaker not a microphone. But then again if a man speaks in a forrest and nobody hears him he is still wrong. 3 wives and a twelve year partnership and they could all hear folding money rustle at 500yards so there is must something they got we ain't.

[kayakerca]

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Uh, I don't think anybody got it Terry.