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Cathedral sound
If you listen to recorded or live sound from large Churches or Cathedrals,
the floor noise seems to quite distinctive. It is not electronic,could be air-conditioning(I doubt this in recordings)or could be very low level audience noise resonating. Pop the headphones on to catch this sound, it is not unpleasant,could be enhanced by compression but it's level to me seems constant. What is it ? Keith. |
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Cathedral sound
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:01:22 +1100, "Keith."
wrote: If you listen to recorded or live sound from large Churches or Cathedrals, the floor noise seems to quite distinctive. It is not electronic,could be air-conditioning(I doubt this in recordings)or could be very low level audience noise resonating. Pop the headphones on to catch this sound, it is not unpleasant,could be enhanced by compression but it's level to me seems constant. What is it ? Keith. Do you mean the background noise (noise floor), or a noise coming from the floor? Assuming you mean the background noise, it is a phenomenon similar to the old seashell against the ear. What you are hearing is the sum of all noises - both internal and external - as resonated and modified by the inside of the cathedral. Because cathedrals tend to be big, with complex hard surfaces, the noise is well distributed in frequency and strongly reverberant. It sounds nice. Not sure what you mean by enhanced in that last sentence, so I can't comment on that. d |
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"Keith." wrote ...
If you listen to recorded or live sound from large Churches or Cathedrals, the floor noise seems to quite distinctive. It is not electronic,could be air-conditioning(I doubt this in recordings)or could be very low level audience noise resonating. Pop the headphones on to catch this sound, it is not unpleasant,could be enhanced by compression but it's level to me seems constant. What is it ? I believe it is the normal "room tone" that you would hear anywhere, but it is modified by the "infinite and complex acoustics" of the very large space with very convoluted and hard reflective surfaces. |
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