Description
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Making decisions about how and when to apply sound processing effects and recording techniques can make or break your song mix. The decisions you make come down to your listening skills - what you hear and how you perceive it. Your ability to properly discern sound, identify a problem, and act accordingly - especially when the decision often needs to be made quickly - makes all the difference to the success of the final track.
Audio Production and Critical Listening develops your critical and expert listening skills, enabling you to listen to audio like an award-winning engineer. The interactive "ear training" software practice modules give you experience identifying various types of signal processes and manipulation - EQ, dynamics, reverb, distortion, delay, etc. The software sits alongside the clear and detailed explanations in the book, offering a complete learning package that will help you train your ears to listen and really "hear" your recordings.
* Learn how to immediately recognize audio problems and identify the 'fix'
* Develop your critical listening skills for common audio signal processes
* Includes interactive software modules to practice identifying commonly used audio signal processor effects.
Contents
Introduction
1 Listening
1.1 Everyday Listening
1.2 What is Technical Ear Training?
1.3 What is Timbre?
1.4 Shaping Sounds
1.5 Sound Reproduction System Configurations
1.6 The Listening Environment
2 Spectral Balance and Equalization
2.1 Types of Filters and Equalizers
2.2 Practice
2.3 Exercises
3 Spatial Attributes
3.1 Time Delay
3.2 Reverberation
3.3 Delay and Comb Filtering
3.4 Reverberation in Multichannel Audio
3.5 Description of the Software Training Module
3.6 Mid-Side Matrixing, Stereo Shuffling, and Polarity Reversal
3.7 Summary
4 Dynamic Range and Levels
4.1 Level Changes
4.2 Compressors and Limiters
4.3 Expanders and Gates
5 Distortion and Noise
5.1 Clipping and Overdrive
5.2 Noise, Hum and Buzz
5.3 Quantization Distortion: Bit Rate Reduction
6 Amplitude Envelope
6.1 Digital Audio Editing: The Source-Destination Technique
6.2 Software Exercise Module
6.3 Focus of the Exercise
6.4 Conclusions
7 Analysis of Sound
7.1 Analysis of Sound from Electroacoustic Sources
7.2 Graphical Analysis of Sound
7.3 Multichannel Audio
7.4 Selecting Listening Material
7.5 Analysis Examples
7.6 Sound Enhancers on Media Players
7.7 Analysis of Sound from Acoustic Sources
7.8 Conclusions
A About the software practice modules
Bibliography