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Hello all, I’m designing an online auditory experiment and would like to loudness-match my stimulus set. Since I don’t have the luxury of running a loudness-matching preliminary experiment,
my idea was to calibrate the loudness levels of my stimulus set (measured in sones using Psysound3) to a reference sound. I would then ask participants at the beginning of the experiment to adjust the volume on their playback device until the reference sound
was barely audible. Sounds in the stimulus set would then be adjusted to a given sound level in sones relative to the reference sound. However, I don’t have a reference sound handy. Could anyone point me to a candidate reference sound that could serve this
function in my experiment? (Fyi, the stimulus set consists of environmental sounds exported from freesound.org.) I’d greatly appreciate any and all responses off list. Thanks a bunch. David __________________________________ David R. W. Sears, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts Affiliated Faculty in Music Theory Performing Arts Research Lab (PeARL) J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts Development Office, RM 110 Texas Tech University Box 45060 Lubbock, TX 79409-5060 Tel: (806) 834-4330 |