tags: mus-407 dynamic-range

Masking

Masking is a phenomenon in which one [sound] conceals or obscures another

• e.g. electric guitar momentarily drowned out by crash cymbal
• conversation obscured by running water or background chatter
• increases minimum hearing threshold and reduces [dynamic range]

Perpetual encoding [algorithm]s identify masked regions and assign fewer [bits] to these [samples].

Sources

• MUS 407 Digital Audio