2014 Training Courses

ArtemiS suite IntroductionSound and Vibration Signal Processing and PsychoacousticsAdvanced Analyses and TechniquesPowertrain Data Acquisition and AnalysisHEAD acoustics Front EndsHEAD Recorder Advanced ApplicationBinaural Technique and TransducersSound QualitySQuare for Jury EvaluationArtemiS suite AutomationEar Training

TrainingCenter 2017

HEAD acoustics GmbH • Tel.: +49 2407 577-0 • Fax: +49 2407 577-99 • info@head-acoustics.de

ArtemiS suiteThe universal software solution for sound and vibration analysis

Where perception and analysis connect

HEAD acoustics, Inc.

6964 Kensington Road

Brighton, MI 48116, USA

Tel: +1 248 486-0099

Fax: +1 248 486-9470

info@headacoustics.com

www.headacoustics.com

INDEX

ArtemiS suite Introduction

Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics

Advanced Analyses and Techniques

Powertrain Data Acquisition and Analysis

Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front Ends

HEAD Recorder Advanced Application

Binaural Technique and Transducers

ArtemiS suite Automation

Sound Quality

SQuare for Jury Evaluation

Ear Training

2017 Course Calendar

2017 Registration

HEAD acoustics offers courses designed to meet a comprehensive set of customer objectives. The courses have been developed to benefit a range of attendees from beginner to advanced. Topics covered include NVH measurement system operation, analyses, theory, and application.

Note: Any of the classes described in this brochure may be scheduled on request, either at the HEAD acoustics, Inc. training center or at the customer’s site. Custom courses can also be offered to meet particular needs. Please contact us for more information.

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ARTEMIS SUITE INTRODUCTION

ArtemiS suite IntroductionTwo-day Course – $875

DATES AND TIMES

February 06 - 07, 2017 | May 17 - 18, 2017 | August 24 - 25, 2017

8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (lunch is provided each day)

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This seminar, intended for users with no HEAD acoustics software experience, will explain the organization and general operation of HEAD acoustics’ multichannel data acquisition and analysis software ArtemiS suite.

The seminar is intended to familiarize users with the software concept, organization and operation and is not application-specific, although it also covers the basics of "listener in the loop" interactive analysis.

Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics and Advanced Analyses and Techniques seminars are provided in our training schedule for application-specific understanding of analytic principles of signal-processing, psychoacoustics, and a variety of interactively-guided analyses. Exercises will be interspersed throughout the course to provide individuals hands-on work.

ArtemiS suite systems are available for "hands-on" use.

SEMINAR OUTLINE - DAY 1

Organization

▪ The Project page: 5 "Pools" act as a flowchart

▪ Windows paradigm of operation

▪ Menus, toolbars, window types; window manipulations

▪ Objects, operations and properties within each Pool

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Setting up a Project

Output modes and graphic manipulations

Working interactively: playing/listening/filtering

The Mark Analyzer and Data Viewer

The Mark Editor: cutting to time or RPM, varying playback speed

Exports to Excel

Data acquisition

SEMINAR OUTLINE - DAY 2

Exports to Word

Batch processing

Using Mark Analyzers as freestanding tools

Copying/pasting, dragging/dropping: many capabilities

Saving and recalling Workspaces

Preparing and running standardized tests

Generating reports (basics)

Calibrating files from non-HEAD recordings or from file imports

Merge Tool

File import/export options

ArtemiS suite in-depth application topics:

▪ Database management: creation, connection, population

▪ Organizing, viewing and using User Documentation

▪ In-depth report generation

Import and export functions

ARTEMIS SUITE INTRODUCTION

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Sound and Vibration Signal Processingand Psychoacoustics | Two-day Course – $875

DATES AND TIMES

March 13 - 14, 2017 | September 25 - 26, 2017

8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (lunch is provided each day)

PREREQUISITE

ArtemiS suite Introduction or authorization by instructor.

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

In general, this seminar develops the use of ArtemiS suite as an analytical extension of human perception for sound quality and vibration analysis in both an acoustic and a multichannel acoustic-plus-vibration context.

How to select and apply conventional and psychoacoustic metrics is covered. Synthetic signal generation, import-export operations and signal editing are included.

Specifically, the seminar addresses the operation of functions found in the following ArtemiS suite Modules: ASM 12 Psychoacoustics, ASM 13 Signature Analysis, ASM 14 Octave Analysis, and ASM 20-21 Generator and Editor.

Course documentation includes printed material, PowerPointTM presentations, and a library of ArtemiS suite example Projects with sample data files. ArtemiS suite systems are available for hands on exercises throughout the course. (Participants are encouraged to bring their own data files)

SOUND & VIBRATION SIGNAL PROCESSING & PSYCHOACOUSTICSSOUND & VIBRATION SIGNAL PROCESSING & PSYCHOACOUSTICS

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SEMINAR OUTLINE DAY 1

Introduction

▪ Attributes of sound events

▪ Critical listening orientation

▪Properties of human hearing

▪Overview of Psychoacoustics

Tools

▪Benefits and limitations of psychoacoustics

▪Relationship of conventional and psychoacoustic measures

▪Multidimensional and perceptive aspects of sound and vibration

▪Signal processing for sound and vibration

(FFT, 1/n octave, order analysis, …)

SEMINAR OUTLINE DAY 2

Application-Specific Analysis

▪Listening-guided choice of metrics: level, frequency, time

▪ Balance analytic resolutions with (guided by) perceptual resolutions

▪Selecting appropriate tools and their properties

▪Identification and objectivization methodologies

▪Measurement vs. time, RPM, speed, etc.

▪Uses of resampling

Tips

▪Reporting using PowerPoint™ report templates

▪Batch-processing methods

▪Standardizing procedures; Projects-as-templates

▪Using Mark Analyzers independently of projects

▪Tolerance bands

▪Graphic creation of tachometer when none originally present

SOUND & VIBRATION SIGNAL PROCESSING & PSYCHOACOUSTICS

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Advanced Analyses and TechniquesTwo-day Course – $875

DATES AND TIMES

March 16 - 17, 2017 | September 28 - 29, 2017

8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (lunch is provided each day)

PREREQUISITE

ArtemiS suite Introduction and Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics or authorization by instructor.

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This seminar explores advanced metrics and procedures in the context of ArtemiS suite Modules: ASM 15 System Analysis, ASM 16 Advanced Psychoacoustics, ASM 17 Advanced Analysis, ASM 19 Advanced Filters, and ASM 23 Advanced Import and Export.

This course is applications-oriented and presents advanced listening-guided measurement techniques in an acoustic and vibration context. Relating metrics to specific noise and vibration issues will be explored with hands-on participation.

Course documentation includes printed material, PowerPointTM

presentations, and a library of ArtemiS suite example Projects with sample data files. ArtemiS suite systems are available for hands on exercises throughout the course. (Participants are encouraged to bring their own data files)

ADVANCED ANALYSES AND TECHNIQUES

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SEMINAR OUTLINE DAY 1

Introduction ▪ Objective description of subjective evaluation ▪ Reducing multidimensional problems into fewer measurement dimensions ▪ Translating the familiar, though often overlooked, multidimensional power of the human analyzer we all have, into technical choices and settings – perception as analytic guidance and "what’s happening" understanding ▪ Pattern-recognition and signal estimation in human perception ▪ Perception and measurement of harmonic sounds ▪ Consonance and dissonance

Advanced signal processing for sound and vibration (part I) ▪ Modulation analysis ▪ Advanced time/frequency/RPM analysis ▪ Considerations of time and frequency: FFT, 1/n Octave ▪ Variable Frequency Resolution (VFR), Wavelet analysis ▪ Advanced psychoacoustics (Hearing Model, Sottek) ▪ System Analysis: Transfer function, Coherence, Impulse Response

SEMINAR OUTLINE DAY 2

Advanced signal processing for sound and vibration (part II) ▪ Advanced psychoacoustics: pattern recognition/quantification using Relative Approach ▪ "Unmeasurable" yet clearly-audible phenomena ▪ High-resolution Spectral Analysis ▪ Analysis of tachometer ▪ Variable filters ▪ Torsional analysis ▪ FIR filters: detailed spectral filtering ▫ Creating filters from measurements or differential measurements ▫ Creating filters interactively ▫ Gating ▫ Resampling into the angle domain (real-time listening, or analytic tool) ▫ Modeling from measured or predicted data ▫ Psychoacoustic time structure from tonal structures; tonal FIR filters

ADVANCED ANALYSES AND TECHNIQUES

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Powertrain (IC, hybrid and electric) Data Acquisition and Analysis | One-day Course – $440

DATES AND TIMES

May 10, 2017 | September 12, 2017

8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (lunch is provided)

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

The Powertrain 1-day course brings together in a single application-oriented class for powertrain engineers all of the ArtemiS suite tools and techniques for rotating machinery data management, tachometer handling and display; plus analysis, filtering and gating capabilities and techniques as well as torsional analysis.

Emphasis is on both IC engines and the particular issues associated with hybrid and electric powertrains.

This course offers a unique combination of refresher and advanced application training.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Reference quantities and channels (pulse, AC, DC)

How ArtemiS suite evaluates pulses and AC tachometers

Displaying RPM or reference quantity histories; displaying pulses

Analyses vs. "RPM" (vs. any quantity)

Psychoacoustic and order-related psychoacoustic measurements

Advanced analyses (ASM 16)

POWERTRAIN DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS

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"Live" dials for RPM and other reference quantities;

multiple simultaneous references

Exporting tachometer channels

Producing synthesized (calculated) composite tachometers

Recording calculated tachometers in real time in HEAD Recorder

Analyzing vs. different references in same file

Filters, including order-tracking and grouping

Order analysis , including time-domain averaging to remove

nonsynchronous content

Variable filtering (from measurement, from graphic or numerical input)

Order signal generator

(part of ASM 21 – generate synthetic orders to existing tachs)

Modulation analysis (ATP 07)

Order modulation analysis (ASM 17)

Resonances, subjective impression, interactively canceling and directly

reading values using 3D Morphing with Mark Analyzer, Filter Editor

Constant-RPM playback

(resampling to angle domain: real-time playback or analysis)

Special tools for electric and hybrid powertrain work,

heterodyned (offset) orders

Reference-variable transfer functions, impulse responses, etc.

Torsional analysis

Gated time cuts and gated DFT and high-resolution spectral analysis

Tonality and order tonality evaluation and targeting using Specific

Prominence Ratio, variable and fixed parametric filters

(IC powertrains) Order roughness and order roughness targeting

using variable and fixed parametric filters

POWERTRAIN DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS

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Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front Ends | Half-day Course AM – $220

DATES AND TIMES

February 9, 2017 | May 16, 2017 | September 13, 2017 8:30 AM to 12:00 noon (lunch is provided)

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This half-day course is the initial part of a two-part course series given the same day. This first course covers all currently supported HEAD acoustics front ends, and the basics of sensor management and data acquisition using HEAD Recorder. The second half-day course (please see the course description for "HEAD Recorder Advanced Operation") covers the HEAD Recorder Advanced Operation including Calculated Channels, User Documentation and Flow Control.

This course covers the use of SQuadriga II, HEADlab and other front ends as needed by students, and will include the front-end properties, settings and use.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

HEAD Sensor Explorer 3: define and manage sensors

Supported front ends: functions and use

HEAD Recorder: Step-by-step organization, features, setup and use: ▪ Assigning, connecting, managing sensors and setups ▪ Displaying "live" analyses ▪ Making and saving time-data recordings ▪ Calibration ▪ Playback

▪ Saving and re-using setups and workspaces

Controlling the recorder and the HMS

HEAD Audio Recorder (basic freeware, usable with HMS, BEQ)

BASICS OF DATA ACQUISITION USING HEAD FRONT ENDS

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HEAD Recorder Advanced ApplicationHalf-day Course PM – $220

DATES AND TIMES

February 9, 2017 | May 16, 2017 | September 13, 2017 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This half-day course is the second part of a two-part course series given the same day. The first course covers all currently supported HEAD acoustics front ends, and the basics of sensor management and data acquisition using HEAD Recorder (please see the course description for "Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front Ends"). This course covers the HEAD Recorder in depth including Calculated Channels, User Documentation, Flow Control (FC), and linkage with ArtemiS suite.

This course covers the use of SQuadriga II , HEADlab and other front ends as needed by attendees.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Review of principal features and basic operation of HEAD Recorder

Online Analyses

Playback

Record and play for stimulus response tests

Creating and using synthetic (calculated) channels

Adapting data acquisition to customer requirements

User Documentation

Flow Control (in HEAD Recorder)

Linking HEAD Recorder and ArtemiS suite Automation Projects

Discussion on applications and requirements

HEAD RECORDER ADVANCED APPLICATION

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Binaural Technique and Transducers Half-day Course AM – $220

DATES AND TIMES

This course is offered upon request. Please contact us to schedule a class.

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This course instructs new users of the HEAD Measurement System and other HEAD acoustics binaural transducers on proper operation, setup and listening. Making effective measurements as well as the background (theory and history overview) of artificial head technology are covered.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Overview of Artificial Head Technology, and Reasons for Binaural Data Acquisition

The Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) and Normalizing Equalizations for HMS (FF, ID, DF)Divided Equalization: ▪ Normalize HEAD to sound field (with HEAD system) ▪ Equalize from this point to listener headphones (PEQ)

HMS Hardware and Features ▪ Digital HEAD Measurement Systems (HMS III, HMS IV) ▪ HEAD with microphones only (HSU) ▪ Binaural HEAD Microphone (BHM, wearable) ▪ Binaural Headet (BHS II, wearable)

Making Good Recordings

The Importance of Binaural Listening to Binaural Data

Issues Regarding All Acoustic Measurements ▪ Standards ▪ Tolerances ▪ Effect of Sound field Conditions vs. Microphone Response Types

BINAURAL TECHNIQUE AND TRANSDUCERS

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ArtemiS suite Automation | Half-day Course – $220

DATES AND TIMES

March 21 - 17, 2017 | September 14, 2017

8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (lunch is provided)

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This course focuses on Automation as a feature to

▪ speed-up common analyses from Pool Projects while minimizing button clicks ▪ sorting through folders of data to process particular recordings in a common fashion

▪ automate analyses and reporting such that many folders of data can be processed or sent through to PowerPoint files with minimal effort

SEMINAR OUTLINE

▪ Review concept of an automation project (sequences, processes, destination, process flow)

▪ Create an automation project from a pool project and from scratch

▪ Automated selection of files by file name or the documentation

▪ Automated cutting of marks based on reference channel information or at defined times, and relative to mark the beginning or end

▪ Automatically selecting specific channels, for example, by name, for analysis

▪ Report in Automation Projects

▪ Use of automation in HEAD Recorder, HEAD Navigator, and from a command prompt

▪ Sample data and scenarios will be provided for hands-on experience

ARTEMIS SUITE AUTOMATION

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Sound Quality | One-day Course – $440

DATES AND TIMES

March 20, 2017 | May 11, 2017 | August 21, 2017

8:30 AM to 4:00 PM (lunch is provided)

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This course is intended for anyone who is involved with improving a product’s sound to enhance the product’s overall quality. The course is appropriate for product managers, design engineers, test engineers, and technicians.

The central theme of this course is using your own hearing to guide you in selecting the optimum analyses for the complex sounds generated by your product. A wide range of analysis choices, including those based on the human hearing model and pattern recognition, will be presented along with an explanation of their applicability for a given sound attribute. A brief overview of auditory physiology will lead directly to a more in-depth discussion of psychoacoustics and its interrelationship with sound quality metrics, and the psychology of sound perception. An overview of the process for choosing an appropriate target sound will include an introduction to jury testing techniques and sound design.

Course documentation includes printed material, PowerPointTM presentations, and a library of example sounds for analysis and evaluation. Software to practice listening evaluation and exercise the jury evaluation process is available for hands-on practice of concepts introduced.

SOUND QUALITY

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SEMINAR OUTLINE

Introduction ▪ Human hearing ▪ Psychoacoustics ▪ Psychology ▪ Critical listening orientation

Analysis Choices

▪ Listen first

▪ Level

▪ Frequency content

▪ Frequency patterns

▪ Time patterns

Choosing an appropriate sound

▪ When customer input is needed

▪ Jury test types

▪ Jury data analysis and metric development

▪ Sound design and simulation

SOUND QUALITY

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SQuare for Jury Evaluation | One-day Course – $440

DATES AND TIMES

This course is offered upon request. Please contact us to schedule a class.

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This course is intended for anyone tasked with designing and running Jury Tests using listeners to rate product sound samples. Techniques for processing results will also be covered.

The course will train attendees on the HEAD acoustics SQuare software that is used to automate the complete process of test design, system set-up, conducting listening tests and processing results.

An exercise session is included to provide attendees a hands-on experience.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Introduction to Listening Tests with SQuare

▪ Test Objectives

▪ Test Types Available

▪ Test Modes Available

▪ Additional Test Features

Getting Started

▪ Hardware Configurations

▪ Software Installation and Configuration on Master and Client PCs

▪ Overview of SQuare Graphical User Interface

▪ Installing a Database

▪ Configuring SQuare settings

SQUARE FOR JURY EVALUATION

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Creating a Test

▪ Preparing Sound Samples

▪ Using the Wizard

▪ Introductions and Demonstrations

▪ Interviews

▪ Using the Test Designer

▪ Setting up the Terminals

▪ Setting up Juror Controls and Playback Options

Running a Test

▪ Logging in Jurors

▪ Starting a Test

▪ Administrator Monitoring Options

▪ Storing Results

Working with Results

▪ Results Manager

▪ Statistics

▪ Correlation with ArtemiS suite Metrics

Exercises

SQUARE FOR JURY EVALUATION

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EAR TRAINING

Ear Training | Half-day Course AM – $220

DATES AND TIMES

May 15, 2017

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

This 1/2 day course is designed to help engineers and technicians utilize their innate ear/brain capabilities to:

Recognize particular characteristics and patterns in sound situations

Use a lexicon for describing and communicating sound situations and their attributes

Gain insights about perceptually-appropriate measurement approaches, tools and settings to quantify a wide variety of sound situation types

SEMINAR OUTLINE

Assessing sounds as either time-varying or stationary

"Listening around" with the ear/brain in a sound situation

Recognizing and dealing with tonalities: phenomena, tips and tricks

Spectral balances

Recognizing modulation

Interaural differences in human hearing perception: when are they problematic?

Factors which draw sonic attention

Changes or patterns occurring in a sound

Hearing switching from "holistic" (normal) to "analytic" mode

Perceptual differences in loudness and tone color between monaural and binaural calibrated playback

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2017 COURSE CALENDAR

2017 Course Calendar

Feb 06-07, 2017 ArtemiS suite IntroductionFeb 09, 2017 Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front EndsFeb 09, 2017 HEAD Recorder Advanced Application

Mar 13-14, 2017 Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics

Mar 16-17, 2017 Advanced Analyses and TechniquesMar 20, 2017 Sound QualityMar 21, 2017 ArtemiS suite Automation

May 10, 2017 Powertrain Data Acquisition and Analysis

May 11, 2017 Sound Quality

May 15, 2017 Ear TrainingMay 16, 2017 Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front EndsMay 16, 2017 HEAD Recorder Advanced ApplicationMay 17 - 18, 2017 ArtemiS suite Introduction

Aug 21, 2017 Sound QualityAug 24 - 25, 2017 ArtemiS suite Introduction

Sept 12, 2017 Powertrain Data Acquisition and Analysis

Sept 13, 2017 Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front Ends

Sept 13, 2017 HEAD Recorder Advanced ApplicationSept 14, 2017 ArtemiS suite Automation

Sept 25 - 26, 2017 Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics

Sept 28 - 29, 2017 Advanced Analyses and Techniques

ArtemiS suite Introduction Two-day Course – $875 O February 06-07, 2017 O May 17-18, 2017 O August 24-25, 2017

Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics Two-day Course – $875 O March 13-14, 2017 O September 25-26, 2017

Advanced Analyses and Techniques Two-day Course – $875 O March 16-17, 2017 O September 28-29, 2017

Powertrain Data Acquisition and Analysis One-day Course – $440 O May 10, 2017 O September 12, 2017

Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front Ends Half-day Course – $220 O February 9, 2017 O May 16, 2017 O September 13, 2017

HEAD Recorder Advanced Application Half-day Course – $220 O February 9, 2017 O May 16, 2017 O September 13, 2017

Binaural Technique and Transducers Half-day Course – $220 Course may be scheduled upon request

Sound Quality One-day Course – $440 O March 20, 2017 O May 11, 2017 O August 21, 2017

SQuare for Jury Evaluation One-day Course – $440 Course may be scheduled upon request

ArtemiS suite Automation One-day Course – Free O March 21, 2017 O September 14, 2017

Ear Training Half-day Course – $220 O May 15, 2017

2017 REGISTRATION

About HEAD acousticsHEAD acoustics offers courses designed to meet a variety of customer objectives. This series has been developed to cover a range of users from first-time to advanced. Courses cover the operation and theory of HEAD acoustics hardware and software solutions, which measure and analyze sound events on the basis of aurally-accurate recording and playback.

www.headacoustics.com

2017 REGISTRATION

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REGISTRATION OPTIONS

Phone: 248–486–0099 • Fax: 248–486–9470

Mail: HEAD acoustics, Inc. 6964 Kensington Rd. Brighton, MI 48116

Email: info@headacoustics.com

Cancellation & Refund PolicyIf you cannot attend a course for which you hold a reservation, please notify HEAD acoustics immediately. You will receive a 100% refund if you cancel five or more business days prior to the class. No refund will be issued or outstanding invoice canceled if you cancel less than 5 business days prior to a class.

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