On Aug 16, 2013, at 6:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:27:55 +0200 > From: David Worrall <[email protected]> > To: Surround Sound discussion group <[email protected]> > Subject: [Sursound] OT: ear freshening > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi all, > > In conducting extended listening tests involving the comparison of different > codecs, it can be demonstrated that fatigue, due to the duration of the > tests, affects the results. > The same effect can be observed by all of us who spend extended periods of > time in concentrated audio listening.
especially with headphones! I make a lot of binaual audio-guide type pieces and it's very difficult and tiring to master them. I switch a lot between headphones and speakers. Have recently been trying to mix in ambisonic and then decode for headphones at the end, but this obviously doesn't work for material that has already been recorded binaurally. > I often combat this effect do some 'ear-freshening' in the form of playing > slow attack pink noise for +/- 10-sec. It seems to 'clear the ears' faster > than silence. My studio is 20 minutes cycling for the beach, so that's where I go for my pink noise! Works a treat, although I imagine there are multi-sensorial benefits from the beach too ;-) best, Justin _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
