Audio Production and Critical Listening

Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training develops your critical and expert listening skills, enabling you to listen to audio like an award-winning engineer.

Featuring an accessible writing style, this revised edition includes new content on spatial audio, creative uses of distortion and Dolby Atmos; updated sections on headphones, hearing conservation and analysis of recordings, and new everyday ear training exercises. The interactive web browser-based "ear training" software practice modules provide experience identifying various types of signal processes and manipulations. Working alongside the clear and detailed explanations in the book, this software completes the learning package that will help you train you ears to listen and really "hear" your recordings. This all-new edition has been updated to include: Access to integrated software that promotes listening skills development through audio examples found in actual recording and production work, listening exercises, and tests. Headphone recommendations and approaches for evaluating headphones objectively. Brand new everyday ear training exercises. More examples of analysis for contemporary recordings in a range of diverse genres.

This is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students on music production, audio engineering and sound design courses, as well as novice producers and engineers honing their critical listening skills.