Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training

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