[sdiy] room acoustics question

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 jhaible at debitel.net wrote:

> If you play live in a hall with bad acoustics (lots of reverb, and
> strong echoes), does it help to increase the volume??

For all practical purposes, room acoustics can be considered linear. 
Therefore volume level does not affect the acoustics themselves (except 
possibly introducing mechanical resonances).
What can and does happen is 
1) playing equiment starts to distort
2) Ear distorts and bass response flattens

In other words, you get worse response.

If you can, try to get rid of the major resonances with parametric eq cut. 
In my experience slightly too little bass is vastly preferrably to huge 
honking (literally) resonances.

Antti - Almost finished EE, major in acoustics

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