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Constructing Individual and Group Timbre Spaces for Sharpness-Matched Distorted Guitar Timbres

Authors: Martens, William L.; Marui, Atsushi

AES Convention 119 · Paper 6627 · October 2005

Abstract

In a previous study on predicting timbral variation resulting from distortion-based effects processing, two types of direct ratings were collected from a large group of na¨ive subjects (approximately 50) for a set of sharpness-matched guitar timbres; first on a dissimilarity scale and then on 11 bipolar adjective scales. For the current study, similar data were collected from five trained subjects to allow for a comparison between results derived for each of the trained subjects and the previously reported group results. To investigate differences in how individuals might describe these distorted guitar timbres, the trained subjects’ adjective ratings were submitted separately to analysis using a method inspired by Repertory Grid Technique (RGT), as well as being submitted for MultiDimensional Unfolding (MDU) analyses.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 119
AES Convention
119
Paper number
6627
Publication date
October 6, 2005
Session subject
Psychoacoustics, Perception, Listening Tests
Affiliation
McGill University (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper