Re: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 30 Oct 2002 22:34:53 -0000 Issue 683

[soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx]

Sounds like the problem is with the human ear.  Around 3Khz our ears are
the most sensitive, when you go up or down from there they become less
sensitive.  There's a graph of loudness respone on this page (random
search)    http://www.essex1.com/people/anning1/intro.html

If you want everything on the cd to sound about the same loudness,
you'll have to turn down the volume on the rest of the cd.  

Most people know of this phenomenon from bass response; if you want to
hear the bass you gotta turn it waaay up.  Same goes for the really high
frequencies as well...

soren 

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:13:13PM +0000, dave henson wrote:
> Dear microsounders,
> 
> Perhaps you can help me tackle a technical problem I am having with 
> mastering one of my most recent tracks.
> The track in question focuses purely on the top end of the graphic 
> spectrum. I spent a great deal of time removing the low end to achieve a 
> variety of high end sounds. The problem that I am having is after having 
> mastered it within sound forge and limiting everything to -0.2 DB there is 
> not a great deal of a sonic output level coming out during playback. I 
> guess comparisons could be made to the synthesis of a dog whistle. Although 
> with a dog whistle the pitch is so high that the sound cannot be heard by 
> humans, where as this track is definitly audible however the frequencies 
> appear to be less friendly to general listening environments.
> Perhaps there is a way that I can master this so that the output level 
> seems to be more in par with the rest of the tracks on my new CDR.
> any comments would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> cheers
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
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