I’m All Ears: What Do Untrained Listeners Perceive in a Raw Mix versus a Refined Mix?

Taylor K. I’m All Ears: What Do Untrained Listeners Perceive in a Raw Mix versus a Refined Mix? In: AES Convention 149. Audio Engineering Society; 2020. Paper 10403. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20940

@inproceedings{Taylor2020_20940,
  author = {Taylor, Kelsey},
  title = {{I’m All Ears: What Do Untrained Listeners Perceive in a Raw Mix versus a Refined Mix?}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 149},
  note = {Paper 10403},
  year = {2020},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20940}
}

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AB  - Creative professionals spend time learning rules just to then break them. The standards established in the audio industry function under the collective understanding that there is not a single ‘correct’ way to produce music, but rather there exists a general consensus of what the ‘wrong’ way may be. To explore whether average music listeners hear details that audio engineers notice, I conducted semi-directed interviews with ten untrained listeners who compared a ‘raw mix’ and an industry standard ‘refined mix’ of two different songs. Results show that these untrained listeners do have a certain level of understanding of what they hear in a mix; the main difference compared with trained listeners is the vocabulary that they use to describe sound.
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