AES Student Blog

 

 

 

Like many others, I’ve started to play the piano in my childhood. I’m very happy that my parents offered me that opportunity. In my youth played in a couple of bands and  taught myself how to play the guitar. We mostly played our own compositions in different genres as my interest in producing my own music grew.

 

 

 

The idea of my project evolved during an internship in an acoustics company. I prepared the acoustical simulations for a new big recording studio and found out how accurately the simulated impulse responses match the recorded ones. I stared thinking about a convolution reverb with simulated IR’s. The advantage was, instead of recording many IR’s for the reverb, to simulate them with a computer. I followed through with my idea and developed a convolution reverb based on acoustically simulated impulse responses as my bachelors research project. It took me three months to develop the software. The software enables the user to change the position of the listener and different sound sources in the spatial environment with ease. An individually simulated ambisonics impulse response exists for every possible position in order to create a realistic feeling of depth and accurate localization. 

 

 

Yes, I will work further on that software. After the AES convention I added a feature to use headtracking headphones to enable the user to turn around 360° and experience a better and more realistic room sound. For the future I will also upscale the impulse responses to fifth order ambisonics. I hope to present my further work on this project and the resulting reverb at the 30th Tonmeistertagung in Cologne.