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Convention Paper

Statistical Properties of the Close-Microphone Responses

Authors: Kokkinis, Elias K.; Georganti, Eleftheria; Mourjopoulos, John

AES Convention 132 · Paper 8617 · April 2012

Abstract

The close-microphone technique is widely used in modern sound engineering practice. It is mainly used to minimize the effect of leakage and room acoustics on the received signal. In this work, the properties of the close-microphone response are investigated from a signal processing point of view, through the respective frequency domain statistical moments. Room impulse response measurements were made in various rooms and source-microphone distances and statistical moments were calculated over frequency and distance. It is shown that the statistical properties of the impulse responses remain relatively constant for short source-microphone distances and this in turn provides a consistent sound, which was validated through a subjective evaluation test.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 132
AES Convention
132
Paper number
8617
Publication date
April 6, 2012
Session subject
Analysis and Synthesis
Affiliation
University of Patras, Patras, Greece (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper