Perceptual Evaluation of Music Mixing Practices

De Man B, Boerum M, Leonard B, King R, Massenburg G, Reiss JD. Perceptual Evaluation of Music Mixing Practices. In: AES Convention 138. Audio Engineering Society; 2015. Paper 9235. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17659

@inproceedings{DeMan2015_17659,
  author = {De Man, Brecht and Boerum, Matthew and Leonard, Brett and King, Richard and Massenburg, George and Reiss, Joshua D.},
  title = {{Perceptual Evaluation of Music Mixing Practices}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 138},
  note = {Paper 9235},
  year = {2015},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17659}
}

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AB  - The relation of music production practices to preference is still poorly understood. Due to the highly complex process of mixing music, few studies have been able to reliably investigate mixing engineering, as investigating one process parameter or feature without considering the correlation with other parameters inevitably oversimplifies the problem. In this paper we present an experiment where different mixes of different songs, obtained with a representative set of audio engineering tools, are rated by experienced subjects. The relation between the perceived mix quality and sonic features extracted from the mixes is investigated, and we find that a number of features correlate with quality.
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