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Evaluation of Artificial Reverberation Decay Quality

Authors: Rubak, Per

AES Convention 118 · Paper 6395 · May 2005

Abstract

Three different methods to evaluate artificial reverberation decay quality are investigated (monaural attributes). The first method is based on evaluation of the autocorrelation function F(t) in octave bands. The temporal diffusion, defined by Kuttruff as TD = F(0)/ max {F(for t greater than 0)}, is proposed as a simple engineering metric. The second method employ evaluation of the short time energy in the impulse response filtered in octave bands. A sliding 30 ms window was employed to calculate the short time energy in the filtered room impulse responses (exponential decay was compensated by an exponential increasing factor). The last method was a modified version of the Kohlrausch spectral stationarity test called Reverb-prints.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 118
AES Convention
118
Paper number
6395
Publication date
May 6, 2005
Session subject
Room and Architectural Acoustics; Sound Reinforcement
Affiliation
Aalborg University (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper