{"id":3389,"date":"2016-11-11T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2016-11-11T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:37:29","slug":"full-does-not-equal-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/2016\/11\/11\/full-does-not-equal-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Does Not Equal Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bill Gibson<\/p>\n<p>Your audio mix at a performance usually doesn\u2019t need to be loud to sound full.\u00a0Keep in mind that the human ear does not have a flat frequency response across the frequency or volume spectrum.\u00a0Your ear hears best at a frequency level between 1 and 4 kHz, especially at volumes below 80 dB SPL.\u00a0Elevated Sounds in this range will seem louder than elevated frequency levels below 1 kHz or above 4KHz.<\/p>\n<p>This means that mixes created at identical signal levels (readings on the output meter) sound louder or softer depending on the frequency balance across the audible spectrum.\u00a0Low frequencies, below about 150 Hz, tend to round out the sound \u2013 they help the sound operator create a full-sounding mix.<\/p>\n<p>A mix with clean highs above 7 or 8 KHZ and warm lows below about 150 kHZ typically sounds good at reasonable levels \u2013 full, without being loud.<\/p>\n<p>Previously posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/voice council.com\">Voice Council\u00a0Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bill Gibson Your audio mix at a performance usually doesn\u2019t need to be loud to sound full.\u00a0Keep in mind that the human ear does not have a flat frequency&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,6,63,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixing","category-music","category-recording","category-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billgibsonmusic.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}