Familiarisation: Sound quality

Sound quality relates to the amount of artefacts or distortions that you can perceive.

These can be heard as tone-like additions, abrupt changes in loudness, or missing parts of the audio.

Examples

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All of these have the same quality as the reference because the other instruments do not affect sound quality

• Reference A B C

In this example the sound quality is degraded by introducing artefacts and distortions

• Reference A B C