Spectral Characteristics of Popular Commercial Recordings 1950-2010

Pestana PD, Ma Z, Reiss JD, Barbosa A, Black DAA. Spectral Characteristics of Popular Commercial Recordings 1950-2010. In: AES Convention 135. Audio Engineering Society; 2013. Paper 8960. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17010

@inproceedings{Pestana2013_17010,
  author = {Pestana, Pedro Duarte and Ma, Zheng and Reiss, Joshua D. and Barbosa, Alvaro and Black, Dawn A. A.},
  title = {{Spectral Characteristics of Popular Commercial Recordings 1950-2010}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 135},
  note = {Paper 8960},
  year = {2013},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17010}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Spectral Characteristics of Popular Commercial Recordings 1950-2010
AU  - Pestana, Pedro Duarte
AU  - Ma, Zheng
AU  - Reiss, Joshua D.
AU  - Barbosa, Alvaro
AU  - Black, Dawn A. A.
T2  - AES Convention 135
M1  - Paper 8960
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013/10/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17010
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
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AB  - In this work the long-term spectral contours of a large dataset of popular commercial recordings were analyzed. The aim was to analyze overall trends, as well as yearly and genre-specific ones. A novel method for averaging spectral distributions is proposed that yields results that are prone to comparison. With it, we found out that there is a consistent leaning toward a target equalization curve that stems from practices in the music industry but also to some extent mimics natural, acoustic spectra of ensembles.
ER  -