What’s Old Is New Again: Using a Physical Scale Model Echo Chamber as a Real-Time Reverberator

Delcourt K, Zagala F, Blum A, Katz BFG. What’s Old Is New Again: Using a Physical Scale Model Echo Chamber as a Real-Time Reverberator. In: AES Convention 147. Audio Engineering Society; 2019. Paper 10236. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20609

@inproceedings{Delcourt2019_20609,
  author = {Delcourt, Kevin and Zagala, Franck and Blum, Alan and Katz, Brian F. G.},
  title = {{What’s Old Is New Again: Using a Physical Scale Model Echo Chamber as a Real-Time Reverberator}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 147},
  note = {Paper 10236},
  year = {2019},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20609}
}

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TI  - What’s Old Is New Again: Using a Physical Scale Model Echo Chamber as a Real-Time Reverberator
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AB  - This paper presents a method using physical scale models as echo chambers. The proposed framework creates a partitioned convolution engine where the convolution processing is carried out physically on an up-scaled live audio stream in the model. The resulting reverberated sound is captured and down-scaled, providing the result to the user in real-time. The scale factor can be dynamically changed to explore different room sizes and the reduced dimensions of the scale model make it a tangible reverberation tool. Scale factors up to 1:5 have been tested for full bandwidth, with higher factor possible with improved hardware or in exchange for lowering the upper frequency range, primarily due to driver performance.
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