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| List 3 reasons to explain the importance of understanding psychoacoustics? |
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| 1) To design better sound effects 2) Audience feel more enveloped 3) 3 deminsion mixes |
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| The scientific study of human perception of sound |
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| What are the three main cues with regards to the basics of psychoacoustics? |
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| What is an attribute of auditory sensation by which sounds can be ordered on a musical scale? |
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| How many octaves does the human hearing range cover? |
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| Which octave range is known to contain, the fundamental, lower harmonics, and overtone of most sound sources? |
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| Which octave range is said to give sounds a "tinny" sound? |
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| Properly emphasized, the lower parts of which octave should be used to improve speech intelligibility? |
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| What's the difference betwwen intensity and loudness? |
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Intensity is a fact
Loudness is perceptual |
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| what are the four static cues for human localization? |
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Interaural time difference
Intersural intensity difference
Pinna response
Shoulder echo |
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| Which static cue is most effecitve when frequency content is between 270Hz and 500Hz? |
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| Interaural Time Difference |
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| Which static cue is responsible for determining both azimuth and zenith, as well as whether a sound is originating in front of or behind the listener? |
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| What are the four dynamic cues for human localization? |
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Head movement
Early echo response
Reverb
Visual to confirm |
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| What are the three principle cues for determining or simulating distance? |
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Amount of high frequnce content
Intensity of sound source
Ratio to direct reverb |
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| What term describes the crowding of wavefronts aroung a moving sound source? |
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| In terms of post production, what is the importance of understanding the cocktail party effect? |
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| You need to have multiple speaking sources |
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| If I place a fade-in on the left channel of a stereo file, and a fade out on the right channel, what have I accomplished, and what psychiacoustic phenomenon have I taken advantage of? |
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| Accomplished a pan...taken advantage of the precedence effect |
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