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Critical listening skills for audio professionals /

1598630237

1598634224

9781598630237

9781598634228

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Critical listening skills for audio professionals /

[Book]

F. Alton Everest.

Boston :

Thomson Course Technology,

©2007.

1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-194) and index.

1. Critical listening. Estimating the frequency of sound : pure tones and random noise -- Estimation of sound level changes : tones, speech, and music -- Estimating frequency band limitations : music, male and female -- Frequency response irregularities : their effect on music and speech -- Judgment of sound quality : simple and complex sounds -- Detecting distortion : what it is and how it sounds -- Reverberation effects : on speech and music -- Signal versus noise : their interrelationship -- Voice colorations : how they sound and what causes -- Listening with discernment : a review -- 2. Auditory Perception. Introduction to the structure and function of the human hearing system -- Use of loudspeakers and headphones -- Loudness, pitch, and timbre : the subjective correlates of sound level, frequency, and spectrum -- How one sound masks another : a study of critical bands -- How the ear analyzes sound : auditory filters at work -- Non-linearities in the auditory system : distortions generated in the ear -- The perception of delayed sounds: how we hear echoes and reflections -- Why some sounds are more pleasant than others : consonance, dissonance, and the critical band -- How we locate sounds : the head, the pinna, and an amazing computer -- True binaural listening : the dummy head in binaural recording.

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Teaches the important skills a music engineer and producer need: the ability to discern audio frequencies, distortions, and other sounds. Written for those involved in professional audio recording - recording engineers, producers, musicians, video post production engineers - this book addresses this subject.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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Critical listening skills for audio professionals.

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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Acoustics & Sound.

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Everest, F. Alton, (Frederick Alton),1909-2005.

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