Loudness Essays

  • Dynamic Compression and The Loudness Wars

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    deteriorating. More than ever before, dynamic compression is utilized in mixing and mastering to make a song as loud as possible. The belief that “louder is better” has lead to these mixing and mastering practices that have since been coined as “The Loudness Wars”. The great irony in this matter is that in an age where technology thrives and our advancements in applied sciences have come so far, one should expect the quality of recorded music to be outstanding. However, as the trend of hyper-compression

  • Personal Narrative Hearing Loss

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    she spoke, while the father’s speech was slightly more audible than hers. One thing that I found strange was that when Ashton would ask me a question, she usually had to have me repeat the answer. In my head, I thought I was talking at an average loudness, but evidently I was speaking at a lower volume than normal. An additional observation made was that I could not hear when other people would say, “Excuse me,” when I was obstructing their path. This made me feel like a nuisance, but luckily most

  • Listening To The Waltz Scene In The Sound Of Music

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    *2. Introduction / response / statement of over-all effect Listening to this symphony soothes my mind every time I listen to it. It brings nothing but happiness to me and makes me forget all the negative feelings I had before listening to it. The symphony reminds me of the Waltz scene in the Sound of Music which was my favorite part of the whole movie. It flows and brings all the emotions I felt watching that scene. The transition of the symphony brought on the memories of this scene in the Sound

  • Observing a City Bus

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    Background: Being a city bus, there seems to be about 50 or so seats, though some people prefer to stand if they are getting off rather quickly (about two or three stops). The space is more on the small side, but was not crowded at this moment and time due to the rain outside, which discourages people to take the bus. The most common objects are headphones, bus books, and smart phones with the passengers. The younger the rider, the more likely they are to have a smart phone unless they are with their

  • Personal Essay: My Disney World Experience

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    My Disney World Experience The first time I was at Disney World was a long time ago. My family and I were really excited to go for a long time. The Disney World we went to was in Japan.The First we flew there we would up in the morning and go to some of the parks there. I was really young but I still remember everything to this day. We went to all of the parks and most of the shows that would play. We stayed in Disney world for a little over a week. It was our last day so we went to our favorite

  • Erica: An Unplanned Name's Perfect Fit

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    My parents spent a lot of time arguing over what to name me before I was born. Their decision time was cut short when I was born over two months early, leaving them completely unprepared. As a result, I was nameless for the first few days of my life. My parents finally settled on Erica because it was the only name they could agree on (even if my dad calls me my sister’s name more often than my own). Despite it seeming like a last minute choice, I feel that Erica is the perfect name for me. According

  • A ordinary day

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    “It Sunday!!! I intend to spend my day doing as little as is humanly possible without actually dying” by Some Card. My ordinary day is on Sunday why? That is the day that I don’t attend to school plus I don’t need to ride the train for a 1hr and 30 minute. It’s one of my favorite day for now. On a Sunday morning I would proximately wake up at 6:15 am fixed my bed .Then take a bath after my bath I put denim and sweater with sneaker. Then I make some coffee for my mother .At that moment I wake her

  • Creative Writing: The Swan Lake

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    Nobody saw, nobody heard Just like any other day, no one was home when Allisha came back from school. The empty house gave her eerie and spooky feelings. She could never enter house in ease; passing the garden with fast pace she looked around as if someone was watching her from somewhere near. Then she opened the door, pushing it hard intentionally making loud noise so that the “Caspers” can know Allisha is back home. She hoped they quickly hid themselves so that she will not see them. If I can’t

  • Essay On Inherit The Wind: Character Development Of Matthew And Sarah Brady

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    Inherit the Wind - Character Development of Matthew and Sarah Brady   Films with intense legal themes generally present very dry, professional characters with occasional moments of character development. In the film Inherit the Wind, the head legal counsel for the prosecution, Matthew Harrison Brady, first appears as a dynamic man of the people. He and his wife, Sarah, seem to be a perfect couple in the spotlight of American politics. Both characters wear broad smiles, walk tall and

  • The Basic Properties of Sound

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    work of Fletcher and Munson at Bell labs in the 30’s, or better, we could say that they are refinements made more recently by Robinson and Dadson. These were made by asking people to judge when pure tones of two different frequencies were the same loudness. Because of the fact that this is a very difficult judgement to make, and the curves are the average results from many subjects, they should be considered as general indicators rather than a prescription as to what a single individual might hear

  • Does The Banjo Form Affect The Pot Or The Resonator?

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    amount of loudness or intensity is in a sound, and sometimes sound when it is too intense it can damage our ear drums. Another measurement used to measure sound is bel, for example one decibel is one tenth of a bel. The bel is not used as much as a decibel because the decibel is easier to understand. The way that we hear sound is that the vibration is picked up by our eardrums. And when it gets to our eardrums we can measure it using decibels (Tony). “The volume of sound is the measure of loudness, and

  • Video Editing: Editing And Editing

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    required so that the audio now has both a left and a right channel. Normalise the track. This will ensure that the loudness of the track will be comparable to that of other tracks when played back. Level the track. This will ensure that the loudness within the track is level and that there are no very loud and very soft sections. Where it is intentional to have such variations in loudness, do not level the

  • The Physics of Music

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    elastic solids as variations of pressure and density. The loudness of a sound perceived by the ear depends on the amplitude of the sound wave and is measured in decibel, while its pitch depends on it frequency measured in hertz, (Shipman-Wilson-Higgins, 2013). We hear sound because circulating conflicts cause the eardrum to vibrate, and feelings are transferred to the acoustic nerve through the fluid and bones of the ear. For example loudness is a relative term. One sound decreases source. As the sound

  • Communication Reflection: Vocalics, Pseudo Listening And Avoidance

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    Throughout this semester I have learned many helpful things in this class in regards to how communication works, how to improve my personal skills, and how other people might perceive things differently than I do. The three concepts I have chosen are vocalics, pseudo listening and avoidance. These three are daily struggles for me and each time they were used previously, I didn’t really understand what all they entailed. I have been made much more aware of what these things are, and how often I use

  • Effect Of Tension On Resonance And Amplitude

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    Effect Of Tension On Resonance And Amplitude PLANNING Aim The aim of the experiment is to investigate the effect of tension on resonance and amplitude of a string. Basis Personal Knowledge This experiment is based on the resonance, frequency and amplitude. From what I have learnt in class and everyday life, I know that when a string of any kind is plucked, it moves to and fro. The movement causes the air molecules around it to vibrate. When it moves fast enough, the vibrations

  • The Transformative Essay: The Evolution Of Pop Music

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    set of 464,411 of the most played songs from around the world between 1955 and 2010. It discovered that pop songs from post 2000 had diminished variety in the timbre and increased in loudness compared to the previous decade. Figure 1: The variety in the timbre of pop music has been decreasing Figure 2: The loudness of pop music has

  • Musical Therapy

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    Depression may be one of the most devastating of all mental illnesses. Not only does it deplete a person’s outlook on their life, but it even inhibits them from properly living their life in complete happiness. Luckily, measures have been instituted to treat such a disease. Psychotherapy, anti-depressants, and counseling are all proven techniques to combat depression. However, a relatively newfound therapy has been researched by various neuroscientists. Musical Therapy is the incorporation of song

  • Room Acoustics: The Purpose Of Room Acoustics

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    of bel unit. Intensity of sound is a physical measurement of a sound that relates to how loud sound is perceived. The term used to express human perception of intensity is loudness, a word which has a special meaning in architectural acoustics. Pitch is the term used to indicate human response to the frequency of sound. Loudness is a composite judgement which depends on the frequency of sound as well as its intensity. Sound pressure is the air pressure above all normal atmospheric pressure caused

  • What goes into the production of a song?

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    divulge into editing their work. Editing is broken up into 3 categories: General, Medium, and Fine ("The Music Production Process: Step 6 Editing Music"). General Editing includes the basic notion of choosing each tracks individual level based on the loudness of others. Another step includes the correction of the singer’s notes, and or pitch correction. This is often done with auto tune programs such as Antares Auto-Tune EFX 2 (“Products”). Pitch correction is vastly use... ... middle of paper .

  • Hearing Tests

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    Hearing Tests Intensity and Frequency Hearing tests measure loudness in decibels (intensity) and pitch in Hertz (frequency). The lowest number of decibels (dB) you can hear at different frequencies (Hz) is measured and plotted on a graph called an audiogram. Frequency: Frequency is the number of vibrations per second, expressed as Hertz (Hz). The sounds of speech are in the range of 250 Hz to 4000 Hz. These are commonly tested in a hearing test. Intensity: Sound waves made by something