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Loudness: There's Confusion in Diversity
by Dave Moulton, 11.10.2009
The big bulge sticking up in the center of the rug is the CALM Act (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation), legislation proposed in the House of Representatives to have the FCC regulate the relative level of commercials. More...
Loudness: There's Confusion in Diversity(2)
by Dave Moulton, 11.10.2009
The big bulge sticking up in the center of the rug is the CALM Act (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation), legislation proposed in the House of Representatives to have the FCC regulate the relative level of commercials. More...
Detecting Level and How It Sounds
by Dave Moulton, 11.02.2009
Our perception of loudness varies as a function of amplitude, frequency, frequency bandwidth and time. It is a complex sensation. More...
Attack and Release
by Dave Moulton, 10.09.2009
Compressors go back and forth between the realm where the level change can occur to each individual sound and the realm where we are changing the overall level for a while. More...
Thinking About Compressors
by Dave Moulton, 08.13.2009
I thought it might be nice to take a moment to consider the primary tool we use to cope with audio mayhem, the audio compressor. More...
Nine Channels on the Level
by Dave Moulton, 02.24.2009
What I found is entirely too obvious: channel-to-channel levels vary a lot. More...
When the Ad's Audio Annoys
by Dave Moulton, 02.10.2009
Some producers of commercials don't understand that by jacking up the loudness of the commercial vis-à-vis the program, they simply encourage us to mute or turn down the level with our trusty remotes. More...
Who Do We Really Work For?
by Dave Moulton, 01.12.2009
I am involved in the music and record businesses, wearing a variety of hats, including those of the artist, the recording engineer, the producer and the mastering engineer. More...
Controlling Loudness in Broadcast TV
by Dave Moulton, 10.29.2008
There is no reasonable way to get loudness to be entirely consistent, if only because of variability between the way listeners perceive sound and the backgrounds in which they listen. So our goal has to be to just get close. More...
Thinking About Loudness, JJ's Way
by Dave Moulton, 10.01.2008
As I've repeatedly discussed in these columns, in broadcast television we have a real problem managing the level of sound, and in my simplistic journalistic way, I've referred to that problem as a problem with audio levels. More...
The Zen Behind Audio Levels, Lip-Sync
by Dave Moulton, 07.09.2008
But that in turn raises a really good question—what is the value of really good surface production quality? Does HD with 5.1 surround sound make a difference, relative to content? More...
Using Spreaders for Fun, Profit and Envelopment
by Dave Moulton, 05.14.2008
Spreaders, for those of you who don’t know, are neat little FX patches that can really enhance stereophony. Even better, they work great in surround as well. More...
Producing Audio With A Center Channel
by Dave Moulton, 03.05.2008
This month I’d like to spend a little more time discussing the center channel, concentrating on some of the production issues we have to deal with. More...
Good News, or Things Do Occasionally Get Better!
by Dave Moulton, 01.09.2008
I thought that this would be a good time to share with you what I found when I used my new facilities to do a follow-up assessment of broadcast quality related to a column I wrote in the May 2, 2007, issue of TV Technology. More...