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Volume glossary

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- [Instructor] Moving onto our volume glossary, I want to talk about a few terms here. Oftentimes you'll hear engineers use the word gain, either subtractive or additive gain, when they're talking about volume moves. Volume moves can be measured most easily in the term decibels, or dBs, and it's been proven time and time again that humans can detect half of a dB increment of volume change, up or down, as the first level of detectable change in volume. So if you want to ask for a specific number to increase or decrease the volume of an instrument or voice, don't say .2 dB, 'cause nobody can hear that. Say .5 as the starting point. To boost or cut is another word for up and down. The term psychoacoustics is one that I introduced in the previous chapter on equalization, and again, psychoacoustics are not supposed to be measurable in conventional terms of metering. Either peak or VU or RMS metering will not measure changes made to the harmonic series that follows the root sound or root…

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