Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of by Floyd Toole

By Floyd Toole

Floyd Toole, a number one professional within the box of sound copy, explains easy methods to layout the very best listening event for recording keep an eye on rooms and residential leisure platforms. This finished paintings considers the total sound replica chain from multi channel audio configurations and the loudspeaker/room approach to acoustics and psychoacoustics and the review approach.

Part 1 indicates the reader how one can create the simplest listening event, supplying sensible ways to the sound copy chain. components 2 and three are an in-depth attention of acoustics and psychoacoustics - the technological know-how at the back of half 1.

* the best way to layout an exceptional speakers - for a house leisure process or a expert recording regulate room
* deals a entire examine the sound replica chain providing useful suggestion and precious pictures throughout
* research from a number one professional in sound replica - Floyd Toole presents crucial wisdom in a hugely readable and exciting style

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However, there is one very important proviso: all of these small systems exhibit a serious lack of low bass, so if one uses a state-of-the-art monitor loudspeaker for all evaluations, it will be necessary to incorporate a high-pass filter in the signal paths to attenuate the low bass. This simple act will enable recording engineers to condition their recordings so they will sound good through average “bad” systems and remove more clutter from control rooms. Discussing this topic from the perspective of mastering engineering, Katz (2002) basically agrees: Mastering engineers confirm that accurate monitoring is essential to making a recording that will translate to the real world.

They all care about what their customers hear, but they differ enormously in how to estimate what that is. Using known “imperfect” loudspeakers, such as Yamaha NS-10Ms and Auratone 5Cs, is popular. Some also listen in their cars and through various renderings of inexpensive consumer products. The problem is that there are countless ways to be wrong (bad sound). Choosing a single or even a small number of “bad” loudspeakers cannot guarantee anything. Nobody in this massive industry seems to have undertaken a statistical study of what might be an “average” loudspeaker.

Turning up the volume greatly enriches the listening experience as more lower-level reflected sounds become audible because they are above the hearing threshold. The bass is fuller, and the overall sound more spacious, more enveloping. A symphony played at background listening levels can still be tuneful, but it is spatially and dynamically unrewarding. In cars, we experience a related effect when vehicles are in motion. Road, aerodynamic, and mechanical noises mask those same smaller sounds, shrinking the listening experience until, in the extreme, it is dominated by direct sounds.

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