"Psychoacoustics is an extremely vast topic. One can start with it but never end. There is more to being an audio engineer than just knowing basic audio theory
and equipment. The only way we can produce better work as engineers is if we understand how the human hearing system works." Check out this research paper by Varun Nair, one of our forum moderators.
"I have mainly covered topics relating to the perception and localization
of sound. The human hearing system (the ear and the brain) works in an extremely
complex manner, and some of these workings cannot be easily explained or
measured because they affect how we feel, and feelings cannot be easily measured
because there is no standard to reference these measurements to. Another problem
faced in this science is that every single person’s ear is built
differently, just like how each of our fingerprints are different. So what I
may hear and feel from a particular sound may be totally different from what
another person may hear and feel.
But lately, especially over the past three decades, there has been immense
progress in this field because of better processing power and technology. Now
computers can be used to model the human hearing system and be used to conduct
tests which were previously impossible due ethical and technological reasons.
My aim while writing this paper was to gather research and make it presentable
in such a way that any person with a keen interest in sound will be able to
understand the working of our hearing system and hopefully implement this knowledge
in the practical world of recording and mixing."
Check out the paper here: Perception
and Effective Reproduction of Sound
