Re: Trying to determine which low quality file is better spectral analysis
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The highest note on a guitar is around 1.3kHz. Of course there are higher frequencies but they are all overtones & harmonics (accompanied by lower-frequency, usually-louder, sounds).
In certain genres like metal, and especially black metal and death metal, it's not uncommon to have guitar tone be the loudest at ~2kHz..6kHz, when there's a lot of overdrive and equalization. These are overtones and harmonics from distortion and whatnot, but they can be louder than the "main" frequencies, sometimes even to the point when it's hard to hear which note is playing but it's still loud af.