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    Sound Waves Vs Sound Rays And How They Apply To Room Acoustics
    Sound Waves Vs Sound Rays And How They Apply To Room Acoustics
    Sound Waves Vs Sound Rays And How They Apply To Room Acoustics
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    Sound Waves Vs Sound Rays And How They Apply To Room Acoustics

    By Dennis Foley

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    Sounds are made of waves and rays. Those are the two basic kinds of energy we’re dealing with. Long waves, short rays and we need to really understand those two types of energies before we go any further with acoustics.

    Nikola Tesla was a great physicist. He thought about things in terms of waves and energy. He said that if you want to find the secrets of the universe you should think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. Well this certainly applies to the way you should think about room acoustics.

    Waves are anything below one hundred cycles (Hertz/Hz.). Now you’ll see different break points in the literature but for purposes of this discussion and applying acoustical treatment to the issues you will find, we’re going to stay with a hundred and below because we can solve frequency issues at a hundred and above relatively easily.

    So 100 Hz. and below are real long waves. Think of them in terms of ocean waves, a big swell starting far out in the ocean. A thirty cycle wave is thirty seven foot long. They’re the most problematic of all because they don't want to fit in small rooms and, let’s face it, thirty seven feet...none of us have rooms that big. What happens when things don't fit in confined spaces? They create pressure (think trying to fit into the clothes you used to wear as child... not a pretty sight!). In room acoustics, that pressure is called modal pressure or room modes.

    Now rays, on the other hand, are much shorter wavelengths. They’re greater than a hundred Hertz. So think of a 1,100 Hz. wave as being about a foot long. As a result, these guys contribute to different room acoustic problems, namely reflections, comb filtering, speaker boundary interference effect (SBIE) and poor diffusion. We'll look at all of these terms, what they mean and how they affect you when mixing or listening to music in the coming discussion.

    So if you're want to get good sound in your room, you need to grasp these fundamentals and then apply the correct treatment to solving your problems. And in this book I'll walk you through just what those options are and how you can do it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDennis Foley
    Release dateSep 2, 2014
    ISBN9781311449221
    Sound Waves Vs Sound Rays And How They Apply To Room Acoustics
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    Dennis Foley

    I am an acoustic engineer with over 30 years’ experience in the business. My technology has been used in Electric Lady Land Studios, Sony Music of New York, Cello Music and Films founded by Mark Levinson, and Saltmines Studios in Mesa, Arizona, along with hundreds of others.

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      Sound Waves Vs Sound Rays And How They Apply To Room Acoustics - Dennis Foley

      Sound Waves Vs. Sound Rays And How They Apply To Room Acoustics

      Listen To Your Music...Without Hearing Your Room

      Dennis Foley & Mike Sorensen

      Published by Dennis Foley & Mike Sorensen on Smashwords

      Copyright 2014

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      Advance Praise for Sound Waves And Sound Rays

      Listen To Your Music...Without Hearing Your Room by Dennis Foley & Mike Sorensen

      Dennis and Mike are the bedrock of the Acoustic Fields room acoustics design team. The foam from Acoustic Fields, absorbs more evenly and smoothly than any foams we have used in the past. The 2" thick version is now a permanent part of our vocal room and covers over 50%.

      The carbon absorbers, absorb bass like I have never heard before. They are freestanding units, that tamed our control room's, two - 18" subs in the front of our room, which we always thought sounded good. We now have definition, and attack / decay, like we never imagined possible.

      Don Salter, Owner of Salt Mine Studios, www.thesaltmine.com, named Major Label News Top Recording Destination in the United States 2012.

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      The Acoustic Fields activated carbon diaphragmatic absorbers are generous in bass, but also tight and they’ve softened the mids and the high’s in a way that I can only say was just kind of amazing, magical really.

      I don’t really understand how you achieved it but I do know that you achieved it and I think the part of the signature sound of this technology that you’ve created, is the decay of the low end is smooth but its generous.

      It’s been an absolute total success here and everybody who comes in to hear the room, especially the heavy hitters, they’re blown away, they’re blown away and like I said it’s not just the mix position but the client couch is very tight and accurate.

      Dennis you know I can’t thank you enough for inventing this technology and believing in it and propagating it and helping Joe all the way across country get it together in this room. And all I can say is the proof really is in the amazing response in this room and this response I’m getting to the room which is just across the board, people are just blown away.

      So just wanna thank you and hopefully this will serve a little bit as a testament to those who are either building new rooms or have been sitting in a room with low-frequency problems and knowing what they’re missing but not knowing what they’re missing because this technology was very clear and straight

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