Familiarisation: Interference

Interference describes the loudness of the instruments compared to the loudness of the vocals. For example, ‘strong interference’ indicates a strong contribution from other instruments, whereas ‘no interference’ means that you can only hear the vocals.

Interference does not include artefacts or distortions that you may perceive.

Examples

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All of these have no interference from other instruments despite the sound quality being different

• Reference A B C

In this example the amount of interference is changed by varying the relative loudness of the backing instruments

• Reference A B C