Re: reverb "rooms"

[bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>]

Howdy,

 At 9 milliseconds per foot, you must have gottenan
early reflection somewheree.
Rig


--- ditch wrestler <ditchwrestler@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> There's a pedestrian tunnel where I work - it's
> about 10-15ft square and about 400ft. long.  Stand
> at one end and clap, the echo's about 1/2 sec.
> 
> I showed Paul Haslem (the world's only looping
> dulcimer guy) and he thought it was pretty neat,
> too.
> 
> 
> ted.
> 
> 
> 
> bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com> wrote: Howdy,
> 
>  Growing up on a dairy farm, we had 1, then 2 silos
> for storing cattle forage for winter. When they were
> empty, the reverb in them was TREMENDOUS. I never
> timed it but it is long. They are 18 feet in
> diameter
> and 50 feet high. Someday, when I move back to the
> farm, I amgoing to take the now unused silos and put
> different mic/speaker setups in them and experiment
> with a GIANT reverb chamber. I will build a round
> plate, hoisted from the top to allow it to be
> adjusted
> to any height within the silo thereby altering
> reverb
> lenght. Different suface textures on the 18 foot
> plate
> will regulate damping. Also on the floor. It ought
> to
> be interesting. Natural reverb from a LARGE
> cylindrical acoustic chamber.
> 
>  Also, we have a large long corn bunker that when I
> was a kid, I noticed it provided slapback echos when
> yelling from the front to the back. There again is a
> natural acoustic chamber that will be interesting to
> try. Move the mic/speaker setup distance to the back
> wall for different echo time. Plus a bit of reverb
> thrown in. I hated growing up on the farm. All work,
> no play. But now that the farm buildings are unused
> except for storage, there are all sorts of natural
> acoustic treatments to be toyed with.
> Rig
> 
> 
> 
> 
>      
>
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