Brightness of Sounds
The term "brightness" is also used in discussions of sound timbres, in a rough analogy with visual brightness. Timbre researchers consider brightness to be one of the perceptually strongest distinctions between sounds, and formalize it
- Luma (video)
- Luminance (relative)
- Luminosity
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