Material acompañante: 1 CD. Critical listening skills for audio professional.
El CD contiene 10 lecciones que conforman un curso completo de formación profesional auditiva CONTENIDO: BOOK 1: CRITICAL LISTENING
Lesson 1: Estimating the Frequency of Sound
Pure tones and random noise
Lesson 2: Estimation of Sound Level Changes
Tones, speech, and music
Lesson 3: Estimating Frequency Band Limitations
Music, male and female voices
Lesson 4: Frequency Response Irregularities
Their effect on music and speech
Lesson 5: Judgment of Sound Quality
Simple and complex sounds
Lesson 6: Detecting Distortion
What it is and how it sounds
Lesson 7: Reverberation Effects
On speech and music
Lesson 8: Signal Versus Noise
Their interrelationship
Lesson 9: Voice Colorations
How they sound and what causes them
Lesson 10 Listening With Discernment
A review
B OOK 2 AUDITORY PERCEPTION
Introduction to the Structure and Function of the Human Hearing System
Anatomy of the Ear
The Function of the Outer Ear
Localization Cues From the Outer Ear
The Function of the Middle Ear
The Function of the Inner Ear
Protect Your Hearing!
Use of Loudspeakers and Headphones
Unit 1: Loudness, Pitch, and Timbre
The subjective correlates of sound level, frequency, and spectrum
Unit 2: How One Sound Masks Another
A study of critical bands.
Unit 3: How the Ear Analyzes Sound
Auditory filters at work.
Unit 4: Non-Linearities in the Auditory System
Distortions generated in the ear
Unit 5: The Perception of Delayed Sounds
How we hear echoes and reflections
Unit 6: Why Some Sounds Are More Pleasant Than Others
Consonance, dissonance, and the critical band
Unit 7: How We Locate Sounds
The head, the pinna, and an amazing computer
Unit 8: True Binaural listening
The dummy head in binaural recording
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