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The room's reverb time

The room's reverb time

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The room's reverb time

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You might think that if we could just get rid of that natural room ambiance altogether, it would make our recording lives easier. But that's not the way our ears like to hear things. The ideal listening room needs a touch of reverb to help increase the perceived loudness of the monitors, and to prevent the room from sounding unnaturally dead. Most everyone finds it uncomfortable to work in a dead room. Since it isn't anything like the sound of the real world. The correct reverb time of a room is very important, but what is considered acceptable does vary from application to application. Usually, a reverb time below point five seconds is required if detail and intelligibility is important. Control rooms usually have a reverb time between 0.3 and 0.5 seconds. While a typical tracking room might be anywhere from 0.5 to 0.8 seconds. As a point of reference, the typical living room is around 0.5 seconds. A classroom is around 1 second. A concert hall is about 1.8 seconds. And a church with…

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