Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals
F. Alton Everest
Critical listening and auditory perception with 18 original narrated audio tracks, an integrated reading companion, and new practice activities.
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Course outline
- Estimating the Frequency of Sound
- Estimation of Sound Level Changes
- Estimating Frequency Band Limitations
- Frequency Response Irregularities
- Judgment of Sound Quality
- Detecting Distortion
- Reverberation Effects
- Signal Versus Noise
- Voice Colorations
- Listening With Discernment
- Loudness, Pitch, and Timbre
- How One Sound Masks Another
- How the Ear Analyzes Sound
- Non-Linearities in the Auditory System
- The Perception of Delayed Sounds
- Why Some Sounds Are More Pleasant Than Others
- How We Locate Sounds
- True Binaural Listening