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[AUDITORY] How to manipulate sound volume in Psychopy?



Hello everyone,

I am new to PsychoPy and I am trying to design an auditory task. I struggle with findings online resources about sound volume manipulation in PsychoPy. I would be delighted if someone had answers to the following questions or could redirect me to online resources/tutorials/already made experiments.

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OS: Windows 10
PsychoPy version: 2020.2.10
Standard Standalone?: yes

First issue:

I am designing a audiovisual experiment with the PsychoPy builder. I want to play sounds at a specific volume (attenuation) depending of the participant’s hearing threshold in each ear. I understand how to set the volume parameter but I do not know if it is possible to set a different volume in each ear, especially for binaural sound stimuli.

One solution would be to have a monaural sound file for each ear and to play them simultaneously with different volume parameters but this solution seems clunky and I am afraid of timing issues.

Second issue:

I do not fully understand how to manipulate precisely sound intensity in PsychoPy. I understand that the volume can be determined with a value comprised between 0 and 1. Do you know to what this value corresponds? Moreover, how could I specify that a sound should be played n decibels above a participant threshold?

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Thank you for your understanding. I prefer to use the Builder interface but I am open to resolve the problem through the Coder interface.

Best regards,

Rémy MASSON