Variance in Level Preference of Balance Engineers: A Study of Mixing Preference and Variance Over Time

King R, Leonard B, Sikora G. Variance in Level Preference of Balance Engineers: A Study of Mixing Preference and Variance Over Time. In: AES Convention 129. Audio Engineering Society; 2010. Paper 8204. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15626

@inproceedings{King2010_15626,
  author = {King, Richard and Leonard, Brett and Sikora, Grzegorz},
  title = {{Variance in Level Preference of Balance Engineers: A Study of Mixing Preference and Variance Over Time}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 129},
  note = {Paper 8204},
  year = {2010},
  month = nov,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=15626}
}

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TI  - Variance in Level Preference of Balance Engineers: A Study of Mixing Preference and Variance Over Time
AU  - King, Richard
AU  - Leonard, Brett
AU  - Sikora, Grzegorz
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M1  - Paper 8204
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010/11/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Limited research has been conducted that quantifies how much expert listeners vary over time. A task-based testing method is employed to discern the range of variance an expert listener display over both short and long periods of time. Mixing engineers are presented with a basic mixing task comprised of one stereo backing track and a solo instrument or voice. By tracking the range in level in which the mixing engineers place a soloist into an accompanying track over a number of trials, trends are observed. Distributions are calculated for three genres of music and variance is calculated over time. The results show that in fact the variance is relatively low, and even lower for the more experienced subjects. These results provide a baseline for future testing.
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