Evaluating timbre in location recordings

Conference item

Recording engineers are often charged with making recordings ’in-field’ that require artistic and creative judgements to made. Timbral fidelity, unlike per- ceived loudness or frequency response, is the least well understood and diffi- cult to control of perceptual characteristics. The long-term goal of this work is to provide a statistically valid ‘rule of thumb’ for the recording engineer wishing to achieve specific timbral characteristics in their location recordings, by evaluating a range of recordings with acoustical and perceptual measures. This poster presents the current methodology - recording with multiple mi- crophones, followed by acoustical analysis, listener evaluation and statistical analysis. The accompanying presentation will demonstrate example sound files from the stimulus set for the audience to experience.

Authors: Williams, D

• Publication status: Not published
• Peer review status: Not peer reviewed
• Publication date: 2011-01-01
• Keywords: Perception; Timbre; Psychoacoustics
• Subjects: Multidimensional Scaling; Timbre; Perception of Sound