音频专业临界聆听技巧
Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals

The listening experience event around midnight was very successful. Everybody put all the knowledge of critical listening skill into practice. There is only one thing that made the night unperfect: too much mosquitoes!

One more thing, this workshop is not a cold-blooded concentration camp in 10 days. There are a lot of laugh and a lot of fun. The most unforgettable moment is that we get a birthday cake (angry bird in blue) flattened to Liang Ying's face on 26th of Aug.

Ciao~

In the last ten days, we have made a quite remarakable progess on the critical listening skills. Tonight, actually around midnight, we are going to an open field where is located in the park at the central Shenyang city. There is a big pond, of course a lot of frogs and insects as well in the summertime. Hopefully, that will help us to improve our listening experience where the frogs and insects are the sound source. It will be a perfect location to have our experience reached to a much higher level than before.

It is all menly man's party around midnight. Ladies, do not get it misunderstood, please!

Preview is the most important thing, let's see what will happen to the rest of our workshop!

Final Schedule

*Day 1:
Lesson 1 Estimating the Frequency of Sound

Lesson 2 Estimation of Sound Level Changes

*Day 2
Lesson 3 Estimating Frequency Band Limitations

Lesson 4 Frequency Response Irregularities

*Day 3
Unit 1 Loudness, Pitch, and Timbre

Unit 2 How One Sound Masks Another

*Day 4
Lesson 5 Judgment of Sound Quality

Unit 3 How the Ear Analyzes Sound

*Day5
Lesson 6 Detecting Distortion

Mixing Session

*Day 6
Unit 4 Non-Linearities in the Auditory System

Unit 7 How We Locate Sounds

*Day 7
Lesson 8 Signal Versus Noise
Lesson 9 Voice Colorations

*Day 8
Lesson 7 Reverberation Effects

Unit 5 The Perception of Delayed Sounds

*Day 9 (Max/MSP Review)
Unit 6 Why Some Sounds Are More Pleasant Than Others

*Day 10
Special midnight party (workshop) for outdoor listening experience at open field, no alcohol please at all!!!

I have been teaching acoustics and psychoacoustics by using the book: Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals for 4 years at Shenyang Conservatory of Music. Usually, it will be a whole year to cover all the contents in the book, only one chapter per academic week.

However, I am trying to do it in 10 days this time. It is a challenge!