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 ITEM# BKHL24 49.99  |
Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals
Audio productions are made or broken by the quality of the recording engineer's ears. The ability to properly discern sounds, identify subtle problems, and act accordingly to apply the necessary fix makes all the difference in the quality of the final tracks and master. These crucial skills can be learned. The ability to instantly identify frequencies, hear hidden distortions, and instinctively reconcile conflicts in the EQ of instruments, audio elements, vocals, and more, are traits of those who have mastered the art of audio production. The best engineers have trained their ears to immediately recognize audio problems that the consumer and those new to recording arts would likely not hear, but that if left unresolved, would result in an amateurish final product. Through hundreds of illustrations and an accompanying disc containing high-resolution MP3 files with nearly five hours of narration of the entire course, you can acquire the audio discernment skills of a seasoned recording engineer by studying this course at your own pace, in your own home.
2007, 208pp.,9" x 11", softbound with CD.
1-598630-23-7
1.84 lbs
CONTENTS BOOK ONE: Critical Listening Lesson 1. Estimating the Frequency of Sound Lesson 2. Estimation of Sound Level Changes Lesson 3. Estimating Frequency Band Limitations Lesson 4. Frequency Response Irregularities Lesson 5. Judgment of Sound Quality Lesson 6. Detecting Distortion Lesson 7. Reverberation Effects Lesson 8. Signal Versus Noise Lesson 9. Voice Colorations Lesson 10. Listening With Discernment BOOK TWO: Auditory Percption Unit 1. Loudness, Pitch, and Timbre Unit 2. How One Sound Masks Another Unit 3. How the Ear Analyzes Sound Unit 4. Non-Linearities in the Auditory System Unit 5. The Perception of Delayed Sounds Unit 6. Why Some Sounds Are More Pleasant Than Others Unit 7. How We Locate Sounds Unit 8. True Binaural Listening
