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Interesting youtube video ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrpUDuUtxPM&feature=youtu.be
The audio industry is a complex mixture of:
Art ? a combination of music performance and recording engineering (microphone choice and positioning, and signal processing: manipulations of amplitude, time, space and spectrum to achieve desired artistic goals).
Technology - the acoustics of recording spaces, microphones, electronic apparatus and algorithms, storage media, loudspeakers and the monitoring environment.
Science ? knowledge of hearing, what is and is not audible, human perceptions and preferences in the timbral and spatial qualities of reproduced sounds, the relationships between subjective judgments of sound and corresponding technical measurements.
In the evolution of the audio industry, trial and error and opinions have had more influence than science and confirmable facts, mostly because the latter has been lacking. The widespread beliefs that ?we all hear differently? and that ?we cannot measure what we can hear? have taken a terrible toll. It is fortunate that the essential elements of music survive the abuses of variability in reproduced sounds. Few people get to hear the acoustical/auditory experience of the art as it was created. Science has given us new insights and the ability to do much better. The professional music and film sound industries need to be better informed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrpUDuUtxPM&feature=youtu.be
The audio industry is a complex mixture of:
Art ? a combination of music performance and recording engineering (microphone choice and positioning, and signal processing: manipulations of amplitude, time, space and spectrum to achieve desired artistic goals).
Technology - the acoustics of recording spaces, microphones, electronic apparatus and algorithms, storage media, loudspeakers and the monitoring environment.
Science ? knowledge of hearing, what is and is not audible, human perceptions and preferences in the timbral and spatial qualities of reproduced sounds, the relationships between subjective judgments of sound and corresponding technical measurements.
In the evolution of the audio industry, trial and error and opinions have had more influence than science and confirmable facts, mostly because the latter has been lacking. The widespread beliefs that ?we all hear differently? and that ?we cannot measure what we can hear? have taken a terrible toll. It is fortunate that the essential elements of music survive the abuses of variability in reproduced sounds. Few people get to hear the acoustical/auditory experience of the art as it was created. Science has given us new insights and the ability to do much better. The professional music and film sound industries need to be better informed.
