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  • noun

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nounthe magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)

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The suddenness, the loudness of it made the ensuing silence on both sides of the door perfectly awful.
The ancient story of failure, ill-luck, undeserved disaster, went down the wind, disconnected syllables flying past Ralph's ears with a queer alternation of loudness and faintness as if, at certain moments, the man's memory of his wrongs revived and then flagged, dying down at last into a grumble of resignation, which seemed to represent a final lapse into the accustomed despair.
"What are you doing here?" And the unwonted loudness of the voice--his voice--breaking the habitual stillness of that hour would have startled a person having much less reason to be constantly apprehensive, than the captive of Anthony's masterful generosity.
In the case of a weather-cock, the direction of the wind is relevant, but not its strength; in the case of the boy, the meaning of the words of your question is relevant, but not the loudness of your voice, or whether you are his father or his schoolmaster If, however, you were a boy of his own age, that would be relevant, and the appropriate response would be different.
He turned his back on the others, as if about to do something tricky, and noted stealthily the weights which Carlier shouted out to him with unnecessary loudness. When all was over Makola whispered to himself: "The sun's very strong here for the tusks." Carlier said to Kayerts in a careless tone: "I say, chief, I might just as well give him a lift with this lot into the store."
My tone had a borrowed loudness reverberated from the height of the land.
"That's not your business!" he shouted at last with unnatural loudness. "Kindly make the declaration demanded of you.
Functions include the ability to audition AES67 streams on-demand using the PC sound card; monitoring of two Ethernet NICs simultaneously for true ST2022-7 compatibility; a Stream Health Monitor that keeps track of jitter, dropped packets and data errors; LUFS metering with detailed tracking of Loudness Units over time; alarms for silence-sensing, under-level or over-level alerts, with user-definable thresholds; SDP interrogation of each monitored stream, with information copyable to clipboard for documentation purposes or for use with other applications as well as per-stream Status Window with display of audio level content over time, errors over time, and file-based error report.
At the show, the Telos Alliance will be showing Communications Solutions Built on IP, IP Audio Mixing Solutions, VoIP Talkshow Solutions, Radio Processing, and TV Loudness Processing.
Pitch and loudness were characterized using a scale from 1 (less significant) to 3 (more significant) subdivided into neutral and non-neutral scores regarding the alterations.
"Screams have trait called 'roughness,' which refers to how fast a sound changes in loudness," explains Poeppel.
At least one was hard of hearing, which I did not know as a young boy, wandering through this kaleidoscope of yesteryear, making it all difficult to understand the possibility that age could have explained the loudness between two older people.
In the survey, 100 people listened to various sounds and rated them for qualities including stress and loudness. Surprisingly, results showed that pedestrians thought the duck quack was the friendliest sound to them.
The broadcast industry has assisted in the rapid transition from peak limiting processing to audio mixing and mastering "best practices" that entirely rely on the so-called "Loudness Paradigm".
Loudness is, of course, important, and you can check online or with the company about how loud it is.