Critical listening skills for audio professionals /
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Boston, MA :
Thomson Course Technology,
c2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Estimating the frequency of sound. Pure tones and random noise
- Estimation of level changes. Tones, speech and music
- Estimating frequency band limitations. Music, male and female voices
- 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 them
- Listening with discernment, a review
- 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 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.