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Wednesday, April 06, 2022
Unique Signatures: Breaking Down Acoustic Behavior To Understand How Sound Reacts In Rooms
ProSoundWeb: In live sound, be it for speech- or music-based applications, we spend a lot of time considering what equipment to use and how it should be deployed to achieve the desired result of an intelligible and pleasing listening experience for the audience.
OBviously acoustics are incredibly important when it comes to choosing how things are set up in spaces, but how quickly does it become a test of the sound designers folk physics rather than a computation of all of the equations? Especially in very large spaces or outside I can’t imagine that they always have the time or capability to do all that math and instead they can look and pick out areas to get a general sense or play music, as A1s do before shows to sound check the space, which for me still begs the question how they understand how to set up speakers before hand. For us at CMU we have these very consistent spaces and so a general understanding of how they need to be hung has probably developed but you might not be so lucky if sound designing for an outside space where you need to go in and from scratch figure out how things must sound.
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OBviously acoustics are incredibly important when it comes to choosing how things are set up in spaces, but how quickly does it become a test of the sound designers folk physics rather than a computation of all of the equations? Especially in very large spaces or outside I can’t imagine that they always have the time or capability to do all that math and instead they can look and pick out areas to get a general sense or play music, as A1s do before shows to sound check the space, which for me still begs the question how they understand how to set up speakers before hand. For us at CMU we have these very consistent spaces and so a general understanding of how they need to be hung has probably developed but you might not be so lucky if sound designing for an outside space where you need to go in and from scratch figure out how things must sound.
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