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Many of the articles on these pages originally appeared in magazines such as Recording and TV Technology. Out of deference to the publishers involved, works written in the last two years will generally not be shown.

24 Bits: Can You Hear ‘Em? 96 kHz.: Can You Hear It?

How Do You Know? What Does It All Mean?

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• Hearing • Measurement

October 1999

About Hearing

All about our amazing auditory system.

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• Hearing

May 2000

About the Loudness of Sounds and the Risk of Hearing Damage

Very important article -- this one's about loudness. Uh-oh! Required reading.

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• Hearing

June 1993

The Audio Window

This piece examines the human range of audibility. Fundamental stuff, but you may not have thought about it in these terms before.

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• Hearing

December 2000

Is Bits Really Bits

What Really Happens When You Listen To A (you pick the number)-Bit Signal?

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• Digital Audio • Hearing

March 2000

The Difference Between What You Hear and What You “Hear!”

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• Hearing • Measurement

February 2000

The Equal Loudness Contours

What They are and What They Mean for your Mixing

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• Hearing • Mixing

March 1997

Hearing: The Highs and the Lows of It

Dave attempts to explain how we perceive pitch, to an alien.

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• Hearing

July 2009

How High Do We Really Need To Hear

What Really Happens To Them Ultrasonic Signals, Anyway?

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• Digital Audio • Hearing

April 2000

The Microphone vs. the Ear

Why Recordings Don't Sound Quite Like the Real Thing and Some Things You Can Do About It. An informal introduction to the realities of psychoacoustics.

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• Acoustics • Hearing • Microphones

May 1993

Spectral Management, or, Ways To Think About EQ and Mixing

Dave talks about the huge range of sounds we can hear and how these dimensions should be approached from a mixing standpoint.

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• Hearing • Mixing

March 1993

We Want Really Accurate Recordings, Right? Or Do We?

And in this column, I really get down to it. Here we go, with the awful, terrible and painful truth. I’m sorry to be the one to tell ya...

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• Hearing • Producing