Archive 'Early reflections'

This control room was projected in 1980 by Don Davis, and its scope is to attenuate as much as possible the first reflections coming from the front part of the room. This way the sound coming from the monitor loudspeakers isn't coloured by reflections, and therefore keeps the sound faithful to the original.

Reverb is the sound that remains in a certain environment when the direct signal has died out. To get a better picture lets take a macroscopic example: a gun-shot in a cathedral.

Psychoacoustics studies the brain's sound elaboration mechanisms. A knowledge of such mechanisms is indispensable for the practice of sound engineering, in that it allows, through appropriate manipulation, very sophisticated sound-effects to be obtained.

In this section we'll be taking a look at the way sound behaves when it interacts with obstacles that find themselves upon its path. Generally speaking the material the obstacle is made of and its dimensions make a difference with regards to the actual nature of the interaction that occurs as much as the sound frequency contents we're looking at does.