Those of you who are acoustically challenged

Bill Ravens wrote on 10/10/2006, 7:24 AM

yes, this is a video forum. But, it seems there's a few folks who don't know their octaves from their resonances. here's a helpful little piece: http://www.electroacoustics.co.uk/article/essroom.htm
The audio portion of a video can make or break a piece. If the ears get tired, watch your audience start to squirm and lose attention with the video. Since videographers are primarily that, and not audio engineers, they tend to not understand the dynamics of vibration. There are even some of you who look down their noses at "pro's". Ah well, bunky, I feel for ya.

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GlennChan wrote on 10/12/2006, 5:24 PM

On the other hand, I think certain things can be taught. i.e. what particular artifacts sound like (compression artifacts, sound processing artifacts, flutter echo, 96khz versus 48khz, etc.). Perfect pitch can supposedly be taught. I've never tried to learn that.

In a similar vein, if you've never heard really high end stuff then you don't know what you're missing out on. i.e. in certain recordings, you don't know that there is a sound of a babbling brook if you listen on earbuds. Once you try headphones, you realize there are more subtleties to the recording.

And then on the other hand, you need to know how to mix for your audience so that your mix translates. A quiet babbling brook may not be a good idea if most of your audience will hear silence!

(I think I've officially digressed here. :D )

Stuart Robinson wrote on 10/13/2006, 11:43 AM

Here's something I wrote for a magazine a while back:

http://www.smr-group.co.uk/articles/acoustics1.html

It relates to HT, but the principals of room acoustics are the same and people might find the maths a little easier since it was written for a wider audience.