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Which room is real?
Listen at a comfortable level. Which of the two echoes sounds like it came from a measured space?
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See how the two rooms were made
A uses a measured response from Central Hall at the University of York. B uses a synthetic reverb model. Both process the same original two notes, and their playback loudness is matched.
AudioScope downmixed, resampled and aligned the OpenAIR Central Hall centre-stalls response before applying it to the notes. The response is licensed CC BY 4.0. The animated spaces illustrate the comparison.
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- 0.10 s · Which room is real? Listen to A and B.
- 3.00 s · [A: Two notes with reverb]
- 5.90 s · [B: The same two notes with reverb]
- 8.75 s · A uses the measured sound of a real concert hall.
- 12.40 s · B uses a synthetic reverb. Both started with the same two notes.
- 17.55 s · [A: Measured room replay]
- 20.45 s · [B: Synthetic room replay]
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