The Quietest Room on Earth 

Looks like a wonderful place.

Mary Spender I would like to put an isolation tank in a room like that.

I live in a noisy apartment block. That room is the stuff of dreams!

This is so cool

Are you a guitarist ? I mean, do you have any band ?

Astro Nut lol

fuck yeah

Yeah, true

Lol legit what I’m doing now

*because he went to get some milk* (and never came back)

A black screen without sound seems entertaining to u?

@@noordholland648 how about a couple seconds of silence fucking moron?

Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill NJ had a very similar room back in 1983 that I visited. It was called the "Dead Room".

@@chazsmith20 You alright? Bad day?

SHH! THIS IS LIBRARY!

so annoying haha

...

what

Yeah i want them to just like stop talking to show us how quite it is

Spoiler: You wouldn’t get the effect because you’re not in the room yourself.

I was waiting for that silent moment but then the video ended already 🤣

Get this, if you turn your volume to zero - it would be exactly the same experience

@@TheSUPERPOTATO2000 i want to die

They did show us the highlights, you don't know that they didn't enjoy it.. Anyways you are not going to experience that through your phone so what's the point.

Depeche Mode wrote a song about that.

😂😂😂😂😂

😂for me it's "keeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, keeeeeeauuuuauuuauuiikkeeeeeee "

Same I'm not sure why it happens tho I'm like minding my own business then I hear like a big *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEAEEEEEII* as if I got concussed

@@fbi7997 tinnitus I have it too

That is real

Haha! Have you seen the Kim Possible episode where the husband is showing his home theater to a guy and he's "This room is very quiet" and then his wife yells from far away. Lol ima have to look that up

@@arande3 hahaha😂😂 I remember that episode

Hahaha!

That was hilarious, I laughed for hours😐😐😐😐

i believe i would start losing my mind in there thinking my mom is calling me and she ain’t even there

Peter B brooooo 😂😂😂😂

All eyes on the brother and then the sister/gf.

HOLUP.

You have dinner in Alabama?

I um-*cough*

*nervous laughter *

One of the hallmarks of being baked is a shift in perception. In the case of being baked, you are processing and analyzing data differently. In this case the source input has changed to something not experienced usually. All in all, it is quite understandable why they seem to be "trippy"

Bryan Raets lmao

or tripping balls

@@bonolio Hadn't thought of being stoned like that before now. Your spot on there, I apparently play like completely different people whether I'm stoned or not... According to my online mates

I could hear the blood in my neck arteries and my breathing and (like Andrew) intestinal activity. Now I'd probably be hearing my high frequency tinnitus more than anything.

omg it might be so crazy listening to actually nothing. You can't even prevent your own body from making sound so you're always hearing something, but I can't even imagine how it'd be to listen to nothing for a moment. Sounds like a real life changer.

I experimented something similar one night in my bed when in the deepest transe-state (no drugs involved here) after a few hours of "relaxing/putting_to_sleep" my body while remaining conscious of the process. You then enter the "deep sleep" state consciously (theta-waves from memory); what you notice right away is your brain switching off the "high frequency sound" that you can hear in a silence (if you can find it, because the brain removes it in real-time from your mind; it is hard to spot it the very first time you try!)... some says it is the residual electricity of the brain working (the unconscious) and i must say it is quite probable... because i could not create/speak a single thought in my head in that state! It was like being "brain-dead" but conscious at the same time! weird but fun! I also remember vividly the instant realisation (no need thoughts for that! i learn that too!) of "Hooo! (O_o), i have attained true silence like never in my life before!". And it was soooo peaceful! (If i could easily, i would tried that again just for that feeling!) It is like comparing a normal night outside, with a "silent night" when nothing moves at all (in a year, in winter for example, there are some!), and all you can hear is "the strange/overwhelming silence". It feels like that between the most silent moment you think you have experienced before... and "true silence" when your brain switches off (most of its general functions) in "deep sleep" state. Even in a chamber like this, or in the middle of nowhere (nature is noisy, but at the lowest levels sometimes)... you always have this very faint sound "in your head" that you can't stop... until you could! lol (try meditation/transe states for 10 years lol)

I've overdosed a few times and every time it felt like being under anesthesia where you lose the concept of time and space and just become a blob of nothing. It's more the end of the experience than the experience itself

I can hear that constant super quiet high pitched hum that sounds like it coming from my ears and it’s kind of a trip to be able to hear it.

So true

They probably actually can hear what’s inside them tho. We hear ourselves chew and swallow but can you fathom if you’re hearing it thru your ears it not? Sounds fried but think about it

Yeah it is even despite the fact there's a constant feedback due to the shit mic

It would be the perfect room for recording music

@@tima.r8925 what do you think a soundproof studio is

I wonder why

@FurNaxxYT I don't think Schiit makes microphones

**crickets**

Lol I just laughed you're funny though😂🤣🤣

You were right

you are... right :-( ;-)

Nah you can hear the crickets

make a song out of your stomach gurgles

Andrew, now you need to record an episode in a cavern.

I'm thumb 200 lol

only 10 minutes ?! you are supposed to be in that room totally alone for half an hour!

Low key poaching subscribers

Man you're old

@@kakarot847 lol that’s the only thing you can say?

@@kakarot847 You will be amazed at how quickly it happens to you ...

Must have been amazing. I love really quiet places. The modern world has so much NOISE.

use the reddit solution

NB The what, now?

I was just wondering how tinnitus would do in a room like that. It might be quiet, but I always have something to listen to in my head.

www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3oauru/if_you_have_tinnitus_this_simple_technique_might/

@@user-oy7gz5bf2h just do the reddit solution every now and then, it helps

as a kyle, I had to restrain myself.

Kyle Kaye me too

I've never hit a wall =/ ..but c'mon everybody likes monster

@@ksizclutch Your inner Kyle is showing

I'm called Luke, putting my fist through plaster or cheap doors is one of the most satisfying actions I can possibly take.

@@St0ckwell :| I deny everything!

@@CrazyA9999 even the holocaust 😎

How wonderful. I love silence so much. Decompress for sure. Have thought to dig and underground room under my house to have a quiet room.

i kno exactly what u mean ocdthangang

Would be amazing

I MEAN, RIGHT????

I probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep at all due to my tinnitus. It would very likely drive me insane after a few hours.

CMDR Cana Fett is that where u can hear your pulse in your ears?? It’s like a swooshing or beating sound?? I think I’ve had that in my right ear before

Moraya Walls no it’s just a ringing

😂

Yes. Yes you are a joke to me.

This is not funny

It’s super uncomfortable

I would love to ✌️

get some foam in-ear hearing defenders and a pair of standard over-ear defenders. Together they'll get you 99% of the way there.

It´s not comfortable. You think you want it, but no, you don´t. What you want is silence, not this oppressive, thick, stuffed, wrong, trippy, nauseous THING that complete stillness is. I once had to perform an experiment in a silent chamber, and it was so exhausting

No you dont it is terrifying

Those who don't meditate often will find it difficult. (but it is a problem of the modern-noisy "in the head" man only) Some tibetan monks surely know ancient caves like this (natural) to "deepen" their interior silence. ;-)

I worked in that building and have been in the anechoic chamber many times. It wasn’t booked very often (usually school field trips), and at any other time you could pretty much just go in. One of the times I was in there the longest, I really wanted to just take a nap! :)

Right; same with light. And he's an audio expert?

cathoderaytube2 the person who explained the inverse square law was Andrew Huang, one of Mary’s friends, not one of the Shure employees. He’s a songwriter & producer and actually is a pretty knowledgeable guy, but seems he got this one wrong.

@@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849 totally. His point made sense regardless of the exact math

@@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849 Thanks; I'm surprised they didn't drop that bad bit onto the cutting room floor; SUREly someone at SHURE should have spoken up and re-explained it on the spot, or noticed in the video later.

Double the distance, loss of 6 db, which would be 1/4 the power.

Can you know music, if you don't know silence?!

Do you mean Vanya Hargreeves?

Evan Rose talk? About what? The drugs or the toys under your bed?😳

​@@joemusic2882 The one where your parents come out as gay and decide to remain married for your sake but don't worry there won't be very much pressure.

@@grandpied u fucking monster lol

Osama NotGonnaPutMaLastName what does fucking mean

@@sakam0t071 eh u wouldnt understand lmao

I hear you.

Yo same lmao my ears started to feel weird 😂

Now its fades to a mother day commercial from Kay's.... I guess its a seasonal thing

You clearly don't have the slightest understanding of how it works.

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If you wanna watch a blank screen with no sound just turn your device off

@@spezzers88 HAHAHHAH

coffin

I really want one. A chill room. Therapy room. Turn off all external stimulae, what's left? Ooh let's look at that. hyperfocus positive trigger :) ...but now the talking is too slow lol

Nighthawk r/oddlysatisfying

wait what

A classical guitar

That would be very nice! well done matey.

wow drugs are cool and you're cool for doing them, totally amazing, smoking a joint in university, that's cool man. Cool.

@@howdj Sad. What's your problem?

Neely is the coolest

This mistake annoyed me more than it should have.

Right, I was instantly like, wait that's not why my lighting studies taught me. I better to go Wikipedia.

Cool, you mean Loudness though right?

In numbers, you lose 6dB when you double the distance and you have this when you're outside on a field.

Dang, I thought it was Peter, Paul & Mary......wished I had a hammer.....

That’s called tinnitus

Everybody gets a little ringing in their ears after a good while in silence but if it starts right away and is quite loud then you might have tinnitus.

No. I didn't always have it, but ever since about 15 its nonstop if a room is quiet.

I do! It's the hearing damage

A Marshall amp did that to my ears. Now I hear Marshall feedback 24-7

Rhett, do you have any videos about hearing loss and protecting ears and stuff for musicians?

@@powermetallistic2293 earplugs and avoiding standing beside speakers

@@iain2080 Ahh, dude, I wear earplugs all the time, even if my friends laugh at me. ☺

@@powermetallistic2293 I have started wearing them religiously after my ears rang for a week after seeing Mastodon. Have some tinnitus when I'm in a quiet room but I'd like to keep it at a minimum. Hate people who find looking after hearing funny, they won't be laughing later in life

@@iain2080 Exactly. Using earplugs is a must during metal shows as a musician.

lol

Beep boop

@Bill It's hardly moronic to not know that. You had to learn that info at one point in time, you didn't just know it.

It is a quarter..

I was about to say this. What he described was just an inverse relationship.

The recording is not doing any justice it just feels so freaky - we had a big semi anechoic chamber at work (testing fluids equipment) and working in side there just felt so strange

@Joe Farrell it’s horrible. Like the OP said, the external noises are necessary. If they played this in my ear as a warning to the damage it could cause I would’ve stopped 😭

I actually live fairly close (within 100 miles) of the VLA, and have been there at the control station/museum several times, in addition to driving past it hundreds of times on my way to Socorro on Rt. 60. It's a tech nerds dream!😁

Hahahaha

What about the speaker? was it not plugged in too? Such a liar.

Ankit Wow. It’s not like it’s possible that the device itself (without the headphones plugged in) was muted. Or that the OP might be on a computer that does not actually have speakers. No way that that’d ever be possible

@@trules777 Chill man. The way that the line "such a liar" sounds, I was obviously kidding.

@@Ankit-zu2kp it doesn't "sound" because we're on the Internet. I can say that you're an idiot and you wouldn't know if I'm being serious or sarcastic because you can't hear the tone I'm saying it in.

im tryna configure what u said in my minds

-5 dB is twice as quiet as 5 dB*.

I know exactly what you mean. I used to build radio station broadcasting and recording studios and sound-proof rooms. Just as you’d get the last of the soundproofing finished, it was hell being inside the room. You got that pressure feeling and some guys even got nauseous from it. We messed with one of the new guys one time. We said, “Hey, we left something out in the design of this room. Go in there and see if you can find it?” We were watching him through the sound-proof window as he was looking around for something missing. At first he was ok, but about a minute into his search for nothing, he started trying to pop his ears. He was trying to yawn and was shaking his head. He looked like a lunatic! We were laughing our asses off. When he came out of the studio he just said, “I didn’t see anything missing but there is something terribly wrong with that room. I don’t know what it is, but I felt kinda sick in there.” We told him it was soundproof and that’s what we left out. Sound. But we built 12 more rooms like that and most of us wore Walkmans with headphones to keep from going nuts doing the finish work. Fun times.

That sounds like a hell of an experience.

That would be awesome.

I want to explore the holes of the room.

🤔 Looks like a V1 boulder problem 💪

I wanted to punch them is that normal

hahahaha

They just need adam neely

Usually for music you want some 'room'. Otherwise can sound really flat, and it is hard to put life back in artificially. Some voice overs can work, but I hate commercials where the VO was done in a very dry room, but the actor is outdoors, or in a space I know would not record that way.

sure was not it being out tha talk in u

maybe try rock and roll or white noise therapy?

aside from straight line in digital.

I tried a deprivation tank. Its great.

Hurts what?

@Ashleigh Thompson my ears hurt... its too quiet in there

The Shure chamber is rated for -5 dB A-weighted. That A-weighting is a curve based on the Munson Fletcher research of human hearing, and actually compensates for our hearing's decreasing sensitivity at lower (and higher) frequencies... so you can't compare it to the UNweighted -9.4 dB Sound Pressure Level of the Orfield Labs chamber in Minnesota. Yup, it's not Plus 9.4, but Minus 9.4. A guestimate of the unweighted SPL of the Shure chamber: probably around 5~8 dB.