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Friday, January 18, 2013
Bruce Swedien 01/18/13 06:29 PM,Excerpted from the excellent “Make Mine Music” by Bruce Swedien, available from musicdispatch.com. It’s my opinion that after all is said and done, psychoacoustics is really why we are interested in recording music in the first place. Psychoacoustics can be defined simply as the psychological study of hearing. The true aim of psychoacoustic research is to find out how our hearing works. In other words, to discover how sounds entering the ear are processed by the ear and the brain… View this story
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
Bruce Swedien 06/02/11 10:18 AM, 1 CommentEditor’s note: If you missed the earlier discussion from Bruce, click here. Over the years, I have been very fussy about the volume levels that I use in the control room. I have always tried to observe the American OSHA sound-exposure standards. I like to test my mixes at a variety of volume levels, and on a variety of different speaker systems. This makes sure that the mix will sound good anywhere. If a mix sounds good at a low… View this story
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Monday, January 26, 2009
PSW Staff 01/26/09 02:32 PM, 2 CommentsRenowned sound engineer Bruce Swedien is sharing his hard-won expertise with the next generation of engineers in his master class, “Critical Listening with Bruce Swedien.” The recipient of five Grammy Awards and a leading architect of the contemporary pop aesthetic, Swedien is credited as engineering innumerable modern classics, including albums by Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, and Paul McCartney. He is well positioned to improve the perspective and technique of students, and does so with the help of Sennheiser and Neumann… View this story
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