Acoustics - interesting sites

Couple of interesting articles

http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/research/arc/cox/interdisciplinary/inter_science_reviews.pdf

http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/research/arc_cox_pus.htm

I am sure Keith Howard did a series on room acoustics a few years ago but I am struggling to find them

 

Decca,

Interesting links. I'll take a more in depth look when the effects of the wine I drunk over dinner have worn off

Cheers, Robbo

 

Check out the pdf's listed on this page.

http://www.rpginc.com/news/library.htm

The one called "Minimising Acoustic Distortion in Project Studios" is good!

Andy

 

Only slightly connected but I went to the lo0cal village fair today and spent some time listening to the brass band - moving left, right, back and forwards with my eyes closed, I'm sure they thought I was bloody mad.

Anyway, of course open air acoustics are different to concert hall as the reflections are virtually irrelevant. Still, what I noticed was:

a) stereo imagery was extremely important to the overall effect and was very stable (watch out flat-earthers).

b) as I moved away from the band the volume decreased but the high frequencies decreased even more. The cymbal-thing on the drums sounded very different depending on how far away I was.

Thought I might mention it.

 

So once again we notice live music is a very different beast from the controlled, created, recorded and mixed soundworld of studio. You can't hope to recreate the live so you might as well attempt to get the most of the recording

 

Ah, you'll have been dancing then Steve

Good fun isn't it - but not something brass bands are renowned for encouraging down our way

 

Dancing

I suggest you try Fanfare Ciocarlia from Roumania. They are a gypsy brass band and bloody awesome in a Django Reinhardt meets Turkish percussion at mach 2 kind of way