| Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi.In 1983, after recording their third album The Law of Devil's Land, they went on their first US tour, followed by a tour in Europe.DC, Poison, and Stryper likely helped this.However, such did little to improve the band's status in America and also took its toll on the Japanese fanbase of Loudness.Vescera eventually exited (whom after which, joined Yngwie J.Malmsteen in 1993) during their American tour in 1991,and was eventually replaced by Ezo vocalist Masaki Yamada to finish the tour.Loudness and the 1993 live album Once And For All.This new incarnation of Loudness released 4 studio albums (Heavy Metal Hippies, Ghetto Machine, Dragon and Engine) and 1 live album (Loud 'n' Raw) between 1994 and 1998.The original and classic lineup of the band reunited in 2001, at the urging of Takasaki, for its 20th Anniversary.Japan was overwhelming and the lineup decided to continue.Musashi ("The Battleship Musashi").A, returned to Loudness.The most famous member of Loudness is Akira Takasaki.His musical style didn't gel with the band and he decided to make his original band, "Loudness".He is known as the best metal guitarist in Asia, and influenced many guitarists such as Paul Gilbert (Racer X, Mr.Masayoshi Yamashita supports the band's music with his bass sound.He was asked to join Loudness since he was friends with Akira.Munetaka Higuchi played in "Lazy" with Akira, and later formed "Loudness" with him.Earthshaker guitarist Shinichiro Ishihara.Ashes To Glory (2006)
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Takasaki.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.This article is about sound loudness.For the Japanese band, see Loudness (band).Loudness is the quality of a sound that is the primary psychological correlate of physical strength (amplitude).Loudness, a subjective measure, is often confused with objective measures of sound pressure such as decibels or intensity.However, true perceived loudness varies from person to person and cannot be measured this way.Loudness is also affected by parameters other than sound pressure, including: frequency (see bandwidth), and duration (see temporal integration).Explanation
The perception of loudness is related to both the intensity and duration of a sound.For long duration sounds loudness is often approximated by a power function with an exponent of 0.More precise measures have been subsequently made that show that loudness grows more rapidly (with a higher exponent) at low and high levels and less rapidly (with a lower exponent) at moderate levels.Loudness and hearing loss
When sensorineural hearing loss (damage to the cochlea) is present, the perception of loudness is altered.Sounds at low levels (often perceived by those without hearing loss as relatively quiet) are no longer audible to the hearing impaired, but interestingly, sounds at high levels often are perceived as having the same loudness as they would for an unimpaired listener.This phenomenon can be explained by two theories: Loudness grows more rapidly for these listeners than normal listeners with changes in level.This theory is called "loudness recruitment" and has been accepted as the classical explanation.More recently, it has been proposed that some listeners with sensorineural hearing loss may in fact exhibit a normal rate of loudness growth, but instead have an elevated loudness at their threshold.That is, the softest sound that is audible to these listeners is louder than the softest sound audible to normal listeners.Other uses of the word loudness
A "loudness" control on a stereo alters a frequency response curve or uses audio level compression to make a selection sound louder.Look up Loudness in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.This page was last modified 23:28, 6 January 2008."LOUDNESS is back to "BREAK THE TABOO!"Updated* LOUDNESS page Info!"The kings of Japanese heavy metal are unquestionably the group
LOUDNESS."In an effort to pursue their musical ambitions even further, they split from the successful group to launch LOUDNESS in May 1981.The duo was joined by former EARTHSHAKER vocalist MINORU NIIHARA, still devoted to soul music at the time, and Takasaki's childhood friend MASAYOSHI YAMASHITA as the band's bassist.LOUDNESS ensconced themselves in the studio in August, and three months later, the band's debut album, "THE BIRTHDAY EVE", hit the stores.The second LOUDNESS album, "DEVIL SOLDIER", was released in July 1982, followed by "THE LAW OF DEVIL'S LAND" in January 1983.Since there were no acclaimed heavy metal sound engineers in Japan at the time, the support of the American Daniel McClendon was enlisted for these recordings.Thanks to his contribution, the albums surpassed the quality expected from an Japanese rock act, and the band's style and technique established themselves.In July 1983, the band conducted their first American tour, followed by a European tour one month later.It was a dream come true for the band to record an album abroad.Julian Mendelsohn, known for his work on Yes' "90125", was enlisted as sound engineer.In August '84, LOUDNESS went into a studio in Los Angeles with producer Max Norman, renowned for his work with Ozzy Osbourne, among others, to record their first worldwide release, later to be launched under the title of "THUNDER IN THE EAST".The band then went on to embark on a US tour in April, and a month later the album made no.On August 14, they became the first Japanese act in history to play at the prestigious Madison Square Garden in New York.As the band kept touring all over the US, they earned themselves a reputation as a great live act.In those days, heavy metal fans running into Japanese tourists in Los Angeles would brag about how much they loved LOUDNESS.Back then, LOUDNESS enjoyed a status comparable to that of Japan's two biggest contemporary exports, MLB's Ichiro and Hideki Matsui.The album "HURRICANE EYES", out in August 1987, was produced by Eddie Kramer, one of the most renowned and respected producers in rock history.All LOUDNESS recordings released after "THUNDER IN THE EAST" had contained English lyrics, but this time they decided to put out a Japanese version for their fans back home.At that point, LOUDNESS were already an international act, but their Japanese fans remained special to them.The news came as a shock, not only to the Japanese but also to the international rock community.The result was the album "SOLDIER OF FORTUNE", followed by "ON THE PROWL" in February 1991, a compilation of cover versions of the band's earlier work, as well as a number of new songs.Vescera left soon after the arrival of "SLAP IN THE FACE" in October 1991, followed by Yamashita, and the second LOUDNESS era came to an end in 1992.LOUDNESS succeeded in acquiring a whole new fan base.June 1992's album, "LOUDNESS", debuted at No.However, Sawada and Higuchi decided to leave shortly after the tour, and for the first time in their history, LOUDNESS were on the verge of falling apart.Yamada, who had decided to leave, changed his mind, and the 4th LOUDNESS era began in 1994.With a former band mate of Yamada's, EZO's Hiro Homma, having joined the band, they recorded "HEAVY METAL HIPPIES" with Takasaki on bass.April 1995, recording their live album, "LOUD'N'RAW", which captured the aggressive feel of that tour.August 1998 saw the band returning to San Francisco to record "DRAGON".One month later, they ventured on a Japanese tour entitled "LOUDNESS CLUB GIG'98 DRAGON", which kicked off at the PENNYLANE 24 in Sapporo.In May 1999, they embarked on the "RISING DRAGON EURO TOUR'99", which included stops in Great Britain, Holland, Belgium and Germany.In July 1999, their "ENGINE" album was launched and became the last release in the 4th chapter of the LOUDNESS story.In 2000, Takasaki began toying with the idea of a LOUDNESS reformation, featuring the group's original members, and the news was formally announced in May, the band going into preproduction soon afterwards.Proof of their success was captured on tape and released on DVD, entitled "THE SOLDIERS JUST CAME BACK 2001", before the band went on another domestic tour with ANNIHILATOR in September.But the year was by no means over, so there was still time to release another studio album called "PANDEMONIUM" in November, followed by the "20th ANNIVERSARY PANDEMONIUM TOUR".In 2003, LOUDNESS produced the "LOUD FEST 2003", featuring Japanese bands like BRAHMAN, COCOBAT and WRENCH, among others, at the famous Club Citta in Kawasaki on September 21st.The DVD "LIVE TERROR 2004" was recorded in Shibuya Kokaido again and released later that year.October 27th, followed by the "ROCKSHOCKS" tour.On November 25th, they released the Japanese version of "RACING".DRAKKAR Records have released the English "RACING" version in Europe in 2005, while LOUDNESS are all set to rock Japan, Germany and the rest of the world live in preparation of their 25th ANNIVERSARY in 2006!LOUDNESS for the USA!!!!!!We need Loudness shows back in the States!Arrigato Gazimasu for adding me.Thank you very much for the add.Thanks for the honor of your add.Te quiero a tipos tanto!!You guys still kickin' ass!Wish you the best for 2008.New Track sounds KILLER!!!!Being stationed in Japan in the early 80s, I had the chance to see Loudness live in the early days and was (and have always been) an immediate fan!!!Even got to see them again in Texas for the Hurricane Eyes tour.SO glad they are back together but have not heard anything as far as any type of US tour.Hopefully that can come together.Meanwhile, I will just sit back and wait.Hi,thank you for adding me!The new album sounds excellent!LOVE your music and i LOVE Akira playing!!!I've been listening to Loudness since the early day's Great Metal,Passion and soul.Minoru Niihara is back with Loudness.If I remember correctly, the crowd was still chanting "LOUDNESS, LOUDNESS, LOUDNESS" during Motley Crue's first song!Thank you in addition to the friend.We have held the metal festival in Japan of a new generation.Your music is nice tune."Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.Id + " Link: " + targetLink.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Please enter your zip code.You are currently registered for a different area.To change your area, please visit My Account and update your Profile.Your info may also be shared with the artist.If you are under 13 years old, you must not fill in this form or provide any information about yourself.Get notified before Loudness tickets go on sale!Click the Add to My Alerts button above.By the time they were introduced to the West by 1985's Thunder in the East album, Japan's Loudness had arguably already hit their peak.Unhappy with the band's direction, the duo split and decided to follow in the footsteps of Bow Wow (the first ever Japanese heavy metal band), forming Loudness with vocalist Minoru Niihara and bass player Masayoshi Yamashita.Vescera, who briefly joined the temperamental Yngwie J.Heavy Metal Hippies, and 1997's Ghetto Machine.Shibata Naoto and drummer Homma Hirotsugu.This lineup recorded two more albums, 1998's Dragon and 1999's Engine, after which it has been rumored that Takasaki welcomed back the original members for an as yet unconfirmed reunion.Use of this site is subject to express terms of use, which prohibit commercial use of this site.URL for paid search terms.Loudness is not simply sound intensity!Sound loudness is a subjective term describing the strength of the ear's perception of a sound.It is intimately related to sound intensity but can by no means be considered identical to intensity.The sound intensity must be factored by the ear's sensitivity to the particular frequencies contained in the sound.This is the kind of information contained in equal loudness curves for the human ear.It must also be considered that the ear's response to increasing sound intensity is a "power of ten" or logarithmic relationship.To more realistically assess sound loudness, the ear's sensitivity curves are factored in to produce a phon scale for loudness.The factor of ten rule of thumb can then be used to produce the sone scale of loudness."Rule of Thumb" for Loudness
A widely used "rule of thumb" for the loudness of a particular sound is that the sound must be increased in intensity by a factor of ten for the sound to be perceived as twice as loud.Another way to state the rule is to say that the loudness doubles for every 10 phon increase in the sound loudness level.Although this rule is widely used, it must be emphasized that it is an approximate general statement based upon a great deal of investigation of average human hearing but it is not to be taken as a hard and fast rule.Why is it that doubling the sound intensity to the ear does not produce a dramatic increase in loudness?Nerve cells have maximum rates at which they can fire, and it appears that doubling the sound energy to the sensitive inner ear does not double the strength of the nerve signal to the brain.This is just a model, but it seems to correlate with the general observations which suggest that something like ten times the intensity is required to double the signal from the innner ear.One difficulty with this "rule of thumb" for loudness is that it is applicable only to adding loudness for identical sounds.Adding Loudness
When one sound is produced and another sound is added, the increase in loudness perceived depends upon its frequency relation to the first sound.Insight into this process can be obtained from the place theory of pitch perception.If the second sound is widely separated in pitch from the first, then they do not compete for the same nerve endings on the basilar membrane of the inner ear.Adding a second sound of equal loudness yields a total sound about twice as loud.But if the two sounds are close together in frequency, within a critical band, then the saturation effects in the organ of Corti are such that the perceived combined loudness is only slightly greater than either sound alone.This is the condition which leads to the commonly used rule of thumb for loudness addition.Critical Band
When two sounds of equal loudness when sounded separately are close together in pitch, their combined loudness when sounded together will be only slightly louder than one of them alone.According the the place theory of pitch perception, sounds of a given frequency will excite the nerve cells of the organ of Corti only at a specific place.The available receptors show saturation effects which lead to the general rule of thumb for loudness by limiting the increase in neural response.If the two sounds are widely separated in pitch, the perceived loudness of the combined tones will be considerably greater because they do not overlap on the basilar membrane and compete for the same hair cells.It is suggested that this corresponds to a roughly constant length on the basilar membrane of length about 1.If the tones are far apart in frequency (not within a critical band), the combined sound may be perceived as twice as loud as one alone.Critical Band Measurement
For low frequencies the critical band is about 90 Hz wide.The loudness of sound as perceived by human ears is roughly proportional to the logarithm of sound intensity: when the intensity is very small, the sound is not audible; when it is too great, it becomes painful and dangerous to the ear."Returned " + google_ads.UNIT, THEN SKIP THAT MANY BEFORE REQUESTING ADS FOR THE SECOND UNIT.For text ads, append each ad to the string.More from Britannica on "loudness"...The loudness of sound as perceived by human ears is roughly proportional to the logarithm of sound intensity: when the intensity is very small, the sound is not audible; when it is too great, it becomes painful and dangerous to the ear.The sound intensity that the ear can ...Yet when two sounds are heard in ...Consequently, the sone scale of loudness is based on data obtained from subjects who were asked to judge the loudness of pure tones and noise.One sone is arbitrarily set equal to the loudness of a ...The loudness level of a sound is a subjective, rather than an objective, measure.This emphasis in pronunciation may be merely phonetic (i.Student Encyclopedia Britannica articles, specially written for elementary and high school studentsDecibel one tenth of a bel; unit of measure of loudness of sounds to normal human ears; because the power of the ear to distinguish differences in loudness decreases as volume increases, the bel scale is made logarithmic; each unit is 10 times the preceding one; thus a barely audible whisper measures one bel (10 decibels) and a speeding express train about 10 bels (100 ...This system of symbols, called notation, tells musicians the pitch and the duration of each sound they are to play.The rhythm, the tempo, and the dynamics (softness or loudness) of the music to be played are indicated by ...By using a metronome, the musician can follow the tempo exactly.Regardless of the type of noise, there are five elements to be considered in describing it: loudness, frequency distribution, directional distribution, time distribution, and operating conditions.You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on
the next lines.Drums InfluencesAkira Takasaki's flying fingers!Now listen to these and tell me they don't sound good!If you do, I'll send a Loudness attack your way!Get your Loudness Artwork on the Loudness page!!!Song suggestions from anyone...Loudness doesn't have an actual myspace page and I didn't like that.Loudness is probably the most popular Japanese band over here in America.OFFICIAL permission to use songs by Loudness on this page WITHOUT having problems of them being deleted or being accused of stealing the band's music...That being said, enough of this legal BULLCRAP and on to something more important...Loudness is without a doubt Japan's most popular heavy metal band.They became more known with American audiences in the 80's with the single "Crazy Nights" on their album Thunder in the East.It was more of a pop based band but as the 80's came, Akira wanted a more heavy band to play in and Loudness was formed.When they finally released 1985's "Thunder in the East", the band was reaching out for international fame.They are in fact the only Japanese metal band to have an album in the "Billboard Top 100" with their album "Thunder in the East".They kept their success with "Shadows of War" and "Hurrican Eyes" but in 1989, Niihara was fired from the band in favor of a more "American friendly vocalist".Mike Viscera was brought in to fill the front spot.He stayed in Loudness through 89's "Soldiers of Fortune" and 1991's "On the Prowl" until finally in 1992, Viscera left for Yngwie Malmsteen's band.Japan) to fill in on the low end.The band then released my own personal favorite Loudness album.The Self titled album from Loudness was released in 1992 and debuted at number 2 on the Japanese domestic charts.The "Once and For All" cd was made on the tour for the 1992 self titled cd.Three years passed before the band's next official album release of "Ghetto Machine" (1997).LOUDNESS for the USA!!!!!!WHEN YOU COME ON OUR NEW PAGEPLAYitFUCKINGLOUD!!!Merry X'mas and happy new year!The Evilizer wish you a HEAVY CHRISTMAS!!!PERVERSION DVD Now available!Thank you for adding me on to your friends list !She thinks your really CuTE!Thanks for hooking up with Amongst Anger!We just wanted to let you know that we dig your support and we will be uploading more songs off our new CD real soon to keep it fresh around here!We do it so that your attention encourages us because there is this appliance just before the extinction in re pleased with now.Of us want to express sincere thanks mostIncidentally, whereas our organisation is based on primordial Shinto, it is closely related to the tradition of Judaism."Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.Do you wish to continue your form submission?"Id + " Link: " + targetLink. |
