The contents pointed to by these three words are not the same type of content at all, and it is impossible to compare and distinguish them. As long as you understand the accurate name definitions, you will know what these three nouns represent.

Sound is a real object noun, or it can also be a designated property noun. Broadly speaking, it is a general term for sound playback output devices, which are real items, like speakers and speakers. For audio equipment, you can include power amplifiers, equalizers, decoders, speakers, and other equipment for the entire system. They are all objectively existing objects.

If the literal meaning is corrected in a narrow sense, it can also be understood as "loudness of sound", which is the way of understanding "sound level". Simply understood, it is the auditory size of sound.

Sound effects are a formal concept that refer to decorative sounds superimposed on the original sound, such as modulation effects such as reverb, delay, chorus, etc.

Or, change the nature of the sound through circuits or digital methods to obtain another sound, such as distortion, overload, equalization adjustment, high and low pass equalization, etc. wait.

Timbre is a designated noun, which refers to the characteristics of the sound, mainly the loudness distribution method of frequency or the balanced pattern. Or a pattern of frequency changes.

If you want to have a deeper understanding of the meanings and in-depth knowledge of these three terms, you can only study audio acoustics, or physical acoustics, etc. professionally.

From the perspective of stage performance, audio is the hardware system that supports the foundation of the performance. The most basic combination is a microphone, mixer, amplifier, Taiwanese speakers, etc., which is the scope of the sound engineer's work. Sound effects refer to the sound effects during the performance, such as soundtrack sound effects, cartoons, funny sound effects, etc., which are completed by sound effects engineers and play a role in activating the atmosphere of the scene. Many people cannot tell the difference between sound effects engineers and sound engineers. Timbre refers to the unique sound color of the musical instrument or the human voice itself, or the sound color modulated by the mixing console.

During the performance, the sound effects and timbres of the sounds heard by the audience need to be completed by sound effects engineers, musicians, singers, actors..., and the sound engineers in the sound department will push or close them together.

In addition to the sound effects and timbres of stage performances, we are often exposed to the sound effects and timbres of home audio systems. For example: surround sound, mono, theater, live electroacoustic... etc. The menu options belong to sound effects. The color of the sound modulated by high, high and bass is simply the timbre.

There are also recording studio speakers, sound effects, and timbre... which belong to a more professional field. Theater sound effects and timbres, mobile phone and computer sound effects and timbres, radio, television, and movie sound effects and timbres...etc.

Sound effects and timbres. Might as well come one by one. Let’s talk about the audio first. Speakers now generally refer to music equipment. For example, I bought a set of stereos. It is easy for everyone to understand what this means, it is a music playback system. Speakers can also be understood as the hardware carrier of music. For example, car audio, stage audio, broadcast audio, etc. This is divided from the perspective of use, but no matter how it is divided, it is a sound playback hardware system. Its core function is to deliver sound. Let’s talk about sound effects. As the name suggests, it refers to sound effects. This term is relatively professional. If you are a friend who plays electric guitar, you will be familiar with this term. You cannot play electric guitar without effects. For example, I need a baby sound effect. This can be achieved through effects. Another example is live streaming, which is very popular now. Through the software, you can insert applause, cheers, whistles, screams, etc., which all belong to the category of sound effects. Finally, let’s talk about timbre. Sound originally has no image. You can neither see nor touch it. The characteristics of sound are like this. It can't be seen or touched, but the sound still has its own personality. For example, a man's voice and a woman's voice are not completely different. The saxophone and guitar sound completely different. Borrowing the word color and connecting it with the sound expresses the appearance of the sound. I try to explain it in layman's terms, but I don't know if everyone can understand it. To put it simply, timbre is what the sound looks like.

For example, the often mentioned tobacco and alcohol voice refers to this unique hoarse tone.

! 1. Meaning: Timbre means that the frequency of different sounds always has distinctive characteristics in terms of waveforms. Sound quality is the quality of sound, which refers to the fidelity of audio signals after transmission and processing. 2. Usage: The word "sound quality" is used more widely. In addition to talking about instrumental music performance, it is also widely used in fields such as audio and concert hall construction. When the thing itself does not have the function of transmitting music or cannot produce sound, we will use the term "sound quality". The word timbre is mostly used in the field of music performance or music education. When a musical instrument itself has the function of transmitting music, we use the term "timbre". The difference between each person's voice and the sounds produced by various musical instruments is caused by the different timbres. 3. Scope Sound quality includes three aspects: First, the loudness of the sound, that is, the strength of the sound. The second is the pitch of the sound, which is determined by the frequency of the audio or the number of changes per second; the third is the timbre of the sound, which is determined by the harmonic components of the audio. Timbre is one element of sound quality.

Extended information: Different types of sounds have different characteristics and sound quality requirements. For example, the fidelity of speech sound quality is mainly reflected in clear, undistorted, and reproduction of a two-dimensional sound image; the fidelity requirements of musical sounds are relatively high, and creating a spatial sound image is mainly reflected in the use of multi-channel simulated stereo surround sound, or virtual two-channel sound. 3D surround sound and other methods can reproduce all the sound images of the original sound source. The timbre of music is divided into vocal timbre and instrumental timbre. The vocal timbres include treble, alto, and bass, and are divided into male and female timbres; the instrumental timbres are mainly divided into string instruments and wind instruments, and the timbres of various percussion instruments are also different.