Prof. Gurevich Lecturing at U-M Design Science

This afternoon, Prof. Gurevich will give a guest lecture entitled Designing Musical Interactions: Skill, Style, and Spectatorship at the U-M Design Science program's graduate colloquium.

Timbral Effects of Dynamic Range Compression

Pro Sound Web recently published an excerpt from Professor Corey's book Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training (Focal Press).

In addition to being a utilitarian device for managing the dynamic range of recording media, dynamics processing has become a tool for altering the color and timbre of recorded sound. When applied to a full mix, compression and limiting can help the elements of a mix coalesce. The compressed musical parts will have what is known in auditory perception as common fate because their amplitude changes share some similarity.

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http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/the_timbral_effects_of_compression/P1/