13 – February 21

Loudness

Topics covered today:

  • Sound intensity
  • Sound pressure
  • Loudness
  • Loudness Weighting Curves
  • phons vers dB SPL
  • Loudness Scales
  • Loudness Models
  • Steady sounds
    • Zwicker (1991)
    • Moore (1997)
  • Time-varying sounds
    • Zwicker and Fastl (1999)
    • Glasberg and Moore (2002)
  • Impulsive sounds
    • Boullet (2006)

 

Software: Genesis Loudness Toolbox

Reading material

  • Sections I–IIA (Loudness) of Oxenham, Andrew J. 2012. The Perception of Musical Tones. The Psychology of Music. New York: Academic Press. 1–9. You can access this paper via the ebook in the OSU library system.
  • Section 3 (Loudness Models) of the ‘History and description of loudness models’ document in the Genesis Loudness Toolbox (Loudness_indicators_description-LoudnessToolbox.pdf)

 

 

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