Tone & Timbre
The color of a sound — frequencies, dynamics, space.
The non-pitch attributes of sound: frequency content, dynamics, space, location in stereo. The shared vocabulary of every engineer who has ever EQ'd a vocal or set a reverb decay.
4
concepts
3
schools
11
drills
3
cross-discipline
Concepts in this cluster
Frequency Identification
×3 schoolsNaming the band a sound lives in — "that ring is around 2 kHz."
6 drills
Compression Perception
×2 schoolsHearing how heavily a source is compressed and what it does to dynamics.
3 drills
Reverb Perception
×2 schoolsDistinguishing reverb types (plate, hall, room, spring) and senses of space.
1 drill
Panning Perception
Locating where a sound sits in the stereo field.
1 drill
Schools that test these concepts
Studio MixLive SoundVocals
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