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Understanding psychoacoustics, how we perceive sound, can lead to better sound system designs as well as creative sound design. Let’s look at one psychoacoustic phenomenon—the precedence effect.

Last Thursday night, the unclassifiable instrumental band Malt Swagger, who were active around the Triangle in the late ’90s and early ’00s before quietly fading away, played at The Pinhook. But that ...

This collection seeks to advance our understanding of how sound is perceived and processed by biological systems, with a particular focus on the cognitive and psychological mechanisms underpinning ...

Psychoacoustics is the field pertaining to perception of sound by human beings. Incorporated within it are the physical interactions that occur between sound fields and the human head, outer ears, and ...

So far in this book we have considered acoustics and psychoacoustics as separate topics. However, real applications often require the combination of the two because although the psychoacoustics tells ...

If you want your builds and drops to have the maximum uplifting, dancefloor-igniting effect, you really need to consider the pure science of sound as well as the practical, ‘engineering’ side of ...