Investigating Factors that Guitar Players to Perceive Depending on Amount of Distortion in Timbre

Tsumoto K, Marui A, Kamekawa T. Investigating Factors that Guitar Players to Perceive Depending on Amount of Distortion in Timbre. In: AES Convention 138. Audio Engineering Society; 2015. Paper 9227. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17651

@inproceedings{Tsumoto2015_17651,
  author = {Tsumoto, Koji and Marui, Atsushi and Kamekawa, Toru},
  title = {{Investigating Factors that Guitar Players to Perceive Depending on Amount of Distortion in Timbre}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 138},
  note = {Paper 9227},
  year = {2015},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17651}
}

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TI  - Investigating Factors that Guitar Players to Perceive Depending on Amount of Distortion in Timbre
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M1  - Paper 9227
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/05/06
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AB  - Typical electric guitar timbre could be classified into three classes according to amount of distortion. Timbre with less distortion is called "Clean" and heavily distorted timbre is called "Distorted." Timbre between "Clean" and "Distorted" is called "Crunch." To investigate the factors that guitar players perceive depending on amount of distortion, semantic differential analysis using eight bipolar adjective scales was employed. Twenty guitar players including six professionals played their instruments through a guitar amp with nine different distortion level settings. Two factors were found in factor analysis, and "Clean" and "Distorted" were located opposite to each other. "Crunch" was located in the middle of latent factors and each anchoring adjectives used in the evaluation. Also the result of regression analysis indicated "Activeness Factor" was the reliable factor corresponding to the amount of distortion.
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