Open AccessAn assessment of individualized technical ear training for audio production
Author(s) -
Sungyoung Kim
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the journal of the acoustical society of america/the journal of the acoustical society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 1520-8524
pISSN - 0001-4966
DOI - 10.1121/1.4922622
Subject(s) - computer science , matching (statistics) , training (meteorology) , production (economics) , test (biology) , identification (biology) , audiology , medical physics , speech recognition , medicine , paleontology , physics , botany , pathology , biology , meteorology , economics , macroeconomics
An individualized technical ear training method is compared to a non-individualized method. The efficacy of the individualized method is assessed using a standardized test conducted before and after the training period. Participants who received individualized training improved better than the control group on the test. Results indicate the importance of individualized training for acquisition of spectrum-identification and spectrum-matching skills. Individualized training, therefore, should be implemented by default into technical ear training programs used in audio production industry and education.