[Gary Eickmeier]

I am going through a remodel of my home and putting in wood flooring where
the carpeting used to be in the music room. It is way too live now, even
with the two 10 x 17 throw rugs. Have you guys ever measured your reverb
time in your homes or studios? What would be the range below which it is too
dead and above which it is too live? I am reading that we need between 200
and 400 ms. Have you measured yours?

Gary Eickmeier

[Scott Dorsey]

Gary Eickmeier wrote:
I am going through a remodel of my home and putting in wood flooring where
the carpeting used to be in the music room. It is way too live now, even
with the two 10 x 17 throw rugs. Have you guys ever measured your reverb
time in your homes or studios? What would be the range below which it is too
dead and above which it is too live? I am reading that we need between 200
and 400 ms. Have you measured yours?

In small rooms, reverb time is a useless measure. Once the Schoeder frequency
gets above 500 Hz or so, the reverb falls off quickly enough that it's no
longer easy to measure in any consistent fashion. And, it does not fall off
with the same curve it does in larger rooms.

In small rooms the main problem you're going to encounter is keeping the
reverberation level uniform with frequency.

May I strongly recommend to you F. Alton Everest's book on small studio
acoustics?
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Edi Zubovic]

On 18 Sep 2016 11:00:18 -0400, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Gary Eickmeier wrote:
I am going through a remodel of my home and putting in wood flooring where
the carpeting used to be in the music room. It is way too live now, even
with the two 10 x 17 throw rugs. Have you guys ever measured your reverb
time in your homes or studios? What would be the range below which it is too
dead and above which it is too live? I am reading that we need between 200
and 400 ms. Have you measured yours?

In small rooms, reverb time is a useless measure. Once the Schoeder frequency
gets above 500 Hz or so, the reverb falls off quickly enough that it's no
longer easy to measure in any consistent fashion. And, it does not fall off
with the same curve it does in larger rooms.


-- Hey Scott, I've found some good readings about the Schroeder
frequency. I'm wondering whether this could be applied to stereo, too?
--I mean time-dependent - lower and intensity - higher frequencies
stereo components. In German, there are two terms common to
microphones, "Zeitlauf-Stereophonie" and "Intensitaets-Stereophonie".

PS: AES members, it seems that now it is possible to use the AES
Online Library without any limits!

Best,

Edi Zubovic, Crikvenica, Croatia