Training 2014 Training Courses Center 2017 ArtemiS suite Introduction Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics Advanced Analyses and Techniques Powertrain Data Acquisition and Analysis HEAD acoustics Front Ends HEAD Recorder Advanced Application Binaural Technique and Transducers Sound Quality SQuare for Jury Evaluation ArtemiS suite Automation Ear Training
Where perception and analysis connect ArtemiS suite The universal software solution for sound and vibration analysis HEAD acoustics, Inc. Tel: +1 248 486-0099 info@headacoustics.com 6964 Kensington Road Fax: +1 248 486-9470 www.headacoustics.com HEAD acoustics GmbH Tel.: +49 2407 577-0 Fax: +49 2407 577-99 info@head-acoustics.de Brighton, MI 48116, USA
INDEX ArtemiS suite Introduction 4 Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics 6 Advanced Analyses and Techniques 8 Powertrain Data Acquisition and Analysis 10 Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front Ends 12 HEAD Recorder Advanced Application 13 Binaural Technique and Transducers 14 ArtemiS suite Automation 15 Sound Quality 16 SQuare for Jury Evaluation 18 Ear Training 20 2017 Course Calendar 21 2017 Registration 22 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.
ARTEMIS SUITE INTRODUCTION ArtemiS suite Introduction Two-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 4 Objects, operations and properties within each Pool
ARTEMIS SUITE INTRODUCTION 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 5
SOUND & VIBRATION SIGNAL PROCESSING & PSYCHOACOUSTICS Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and 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) 6
SOUND & VIBRATION SIGNAL PROCESSING & PSYCHOACOUSTICS 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 7
ADVANCED ANALYSES AND TECHNIQUES Advanced Analyses and Techniques Two-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 listeningguided 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) 8
ADVANCED ANALYSES AND TECHNIQUES 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 9
POWERTRAIN DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS 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 applicationoriented 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) 10
POWERTRAIN DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS "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 11
BASICS OF DATA ACQUISITION USING HEAD FRONT ENDS 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) 12
HEAD RECORDER ADVANCED APPLICATION HEAD Recorder Advanced Application Half-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 13
BINAURAL TECHNIQUE AND TRANSDUCERS 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 14 Issues Regarding All Acoustic Measurements Standards Tolerances Effect of Sound field Conditions vs. Microphone Response Types
ARTEMIS SUITE AUTOMATION 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 15
SOUND QUALITY 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. 16
SOUND QUALITY 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 17
SQUARE FOR JURY EVALUATION 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 18
SQUARE FOR JURY EVALUATION 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 19
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 20
2017 COURSE CALENDAR 2017 Course Calendar Feb 06-07, 2017 Feb 09, 2017 Feb 09, 2017 ArtemiS suite Introduction Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front Ends HEAD Recorder Advanced Application Mar 13-14, 2017 Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics Mar 16-17, 2017 Mar 20, 2017 Mar 21, 2017 Advanced Analyses and Techniques Sound Quality ArtemiS suite Automation May 10, 2017 Powertrain Data Acquisition and Analysis May 11, 2017 Sound Quality May 15, 2017 May 16, 2017 May 16, 2017 May 17-18, 2017 Ear Training Basics of Data Acquisition using HEAD acoustics Front Ends HEAD Recorder Advanced Application ArtemiS suite Introduction Aug 21, 2017 Aug 24-25, 2017 Sound Quality 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 Sept 14, 2017 HEAD Recorder Advanced Application ArtemiS suite Automation Sept 25-26, 2017 Sound and Vibration Signal Processing and Psychoacoustics Sept 28-29, 2017 Advanced Analyses and Techniques 21
2017 REGISTRATION 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 About HEAD acoustics HEAD 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
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